https://www.scmp.com/rss/326284/feed Ex-CIA agent Jerry Chun Shing Lee was arrested in New York on January 15, 2018. Also known as Zhen Cheng Li, he is accused of unlawful retention of national defence information​ and leaking it to China.​ en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com A former US intelligence officer pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges of conspiring to deliver top-secret national defense information to China and unlawful retention of classified information. Jerry Chun Shing Lee was expected to go to trial in federal court this week in Alexandria, Virginia, but a hearing to change his plea was held before US District Judge T.S. Ellis III, who could sentence Lee to a maximum penalty of life in prison. “I conspired to gather and send secret-level information... https://www.scmp.com/china/ex-cia-officer-jerry-chun-shing-lee-pleads-guilty-spying-china/article/3008525?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/china/ex-cia-officer-jerry-chun-shing-lee-pleads-guilty-spying-china/article/3008525?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 02 May 2019 09:20:41 +0000 A former CIA officer is expected to plead guilty over a year after being arrested and charged with conspiracy to spy for China and unlawful retention of classified information. Jerry Chun Shing Lee was scheduled to go to trial this week, having maintained through a lawyer that he was a “loyal American”. But a hearing to change his plea has been set for Wednesday afternoon in federal court in Alexandria before Judge T.S. Ellis III. Prosecutors would not provide further details, and no plea is... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/3008359/hong-kong-resident-jerry-chun-shing-lee-ex-cia-officer-accused?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/3008359/hong-kong-resident-jerry-chun-shing-lee-ex-cia-officer-accused?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 30 Apr 2019 21:31:26 +0000 A former CIA officer and Hong Kong resident accused of passing top secret information to Chinese intelligence officers in exchange for money will have to wait a year before going on trial in the United States. Jerry Chun Shing Lee, an American citizen who worked for the CIA from 1994 to 2007, pleaded not guilty on Friday to one charge of conspiracy to commit espionage and two of illegally retaining classified information. Lee, 53, appeared for arraignment in a federal court in Alexandria,... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/2146916/jerry-chun-shing-lee-spy-trial-ex-cia-agent?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/2146916/jerry-chun-shing-lee-spy-trial-ex-cia-agent?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 19 May 2018 13:44:08 +0000 China is alleged to have given the accused spy Jerry Chun Shing Lee a cash gift of $100,000 and promised it would “take care of him for life,” according to court documents. The Hong Kong-born Lee, who was a CIA officer between 1994 and 2007, is also alleged to have deposited hundreds of thousands of dollars more in illicit payments from his Chinese handlers into his personal bank accounts in Hong Kong. He is scheduled to be arraigned in a federal court in Virginia on Friday, where he is expected... https://www.scmp.com/china/ex-cia-officer-jerry-chun-shing-lee-will-plead-not-guilty-espionage/article/2146572?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/china/ex-cia-officer-jerry-chun-shing-lee-will-plead-not-guilty-espionage/article/2146572?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 17 May 2018 08:44:04 +0000 China is alleged to have given the accused spy Jerry Chun Shing Lee a cash gift of US$100,000 and promised it would “take care of him for life”, according to court documents. The Hong Kong-born Lee, who was a CIA officer between 1994 and 2007, is also alleged to have deposited hundreds of thousands of dollars more in illicit payments from his Chinese handlers into his personal HSBC accounts in Hong Kong. He is scheduled to be arraigned in a federal court in Virginia on Friday, where he is... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/2146430/court-documents-claim-china-promised-take?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/2146430/court-documents-claim-china-promised-take?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 16 May 2018 10:45:45 +0000 A former CIA agent suspected of helping China dismantle the agency’s spy network in the country was charged on Tuesday with conspiring to commit espionage. The suspect, Jerry Chun Shing Lee, is a 53-year-old naturalized US citizen who worked for the CIA from 1994 to 2007 as a case officer. The Chinese government killed at least a dozen CIA sources in China between 2010 and 2012, crippling the US’ intelligence network in the country, the New York Times reported last year. Lee was at the center of... https://www.scmp.com/politics/former-cia-agent-jerry-lee-charged-espionage-china/article/2145368?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/politics/former-cia-agent-jerry-lee-charged-espionage-china/article/2145368?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 09 May 2018 10:20:05 +0000 Former CIA officer Jerry Chun Shing Lee, a Hong Kong resident, has been charged with gathering classified information he allegedly intended to pass to the Chinese government, the US Justice Department said on Tuesday. Lee, 53, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Virginia on one count of conspiracy to gather or deliver national defence information to aid a foreign government and two counts of unlawfully retaining documents related to the national defence. Arrested ex-CIA agent was fired from... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2145261/hongkonger-jerry-chun-shing-lee-former-cia-agent?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2145261/hongkonger-jerry-chun-shing-lee-former-cia-agent?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 08 May 2018 23:56:27 +0000 Despite not realising it at the time – it was more than 30 years ago – the most important piece of professional advice I ever received came from a giant of a man in every sense of the word, my first mentor, Donald MacDonald. Donald, who was a physically imposing and impossibly likeable American of Scottish descent who earned his journalistic stripes covering the violent turmoil of the civil rights movement in the United States’ Deep South almost 70 years ago, told me: “Never, ever, be afraid to... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/2131270/are-hong-kongs-edward-snowden-chickens-finally-coming-home-roost?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/2131270/are-hong-kongs-edward-snowden-chickens-finally-coming-home-roost?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 30 Jan 2018 22:33:38 +0000 A former colleague of ex-CIA agent Jerry Chun Shing Lee – who was arrested in the United States on Monday – has revealed details of how Lee was fired from a cigarette company in Hong Kong amid suspicions he was leaking sensitive information to Chinese authorities. Suspicions emerged after shipments were unexpectedly seized by Beijing and a contract investigator was imprisoned on the mainland. While at the time we could not prove it, we suspected he was leaking the details of our investigations... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2129593/smoke-and-mirrors-details-revealed-arrested-ex-cia-spys?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2129593/smoke-and-mirrors-details-revealed-arrested-ex-cia-spys?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 19 Jan 2018 00:00:30 +0000 Detained CIA agent Jerry Chun Shing Lee went from being an operative in the world’s top spy agency to investigating counterfeit cigarettes in Hong Kong, sources have told the Post. He later went on to set up his own company to do similar work, before joining auction house Christie’s. According to a security source with several decades of experience in the sector, Lee worked for Japan Tobacco International after he left the CIA in 2007. “He worked for the investigations team, which involved... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2129582/arrested-ex-cia-agent-quit-spy-agency-investigate?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2129582/arrested-ex-cia-agent-quit-spy-agency-investigate?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:45:30 +0000 Ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu was certainly not wrong when he said there is no place where espionage is not possible. However, there are some places where it is more possible than others. And Hong Kong is one of those places. The arrest this week in the United States of former CIA operative, Jerry Chun Shing Lee, is the latest episode in a decades-long dalliance with the dark art of espionage which has earned Hong Kong the reputation of being – alongside Casablanca and Lisbon – a... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2129570/ex-cia-agents-arrest-adds-hong-kongs-long-reputation-spying?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2129570/ex-cia-agents-arrest-adds-hong-kongs-long-reputation-spying?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 18 Jan 2018 12:15:00 +0000 Photos of a former CIA agent currently in US custody for suspected espionage have emerged showing a rugged “strongly built” man who had worked at auction house Christie’s in Hong Kong for nearly two years. Hong Kong resident and US citizen Jerry Chun Shing Lee, who was arrested this week, had been working with the British auction house for the last 20 months and was “focused on physical security for the firm’s facilities and staff”, according to the firm. Christie’s has suspended Lee. He had... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2128719/arrested-ex-cia-agent-kept-low-profile-while-living-hong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2128719/arrested-ex-cia-agent-kept-low-profile-while-living-hong?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 17 Jan 2018 15:30:15 +0000 A former Central Intelligence Agency officer who now lives in Hong Kong was arrested at a US airport on Monday night in connection with charges that he illegally retained highly classified information, the US Justice Department said Tuesday. Jerry Chun Shing Lee, a US citizen, used to maintain a top-secret clearance and began working for the CIA in 1994. The Justice Department said that in 2012, FBI agents searched his hotel rooms during trips to Virginia and Hawaii. They discovered he had two... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2128570/former-cia-agent-hong-kong-resident-jerry-chun-shing?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2128570/former-cia-agent-hong-kong-resident-jerry-chun-shing?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 17 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000