Michael Novakhov – SharedNewsLinks℠: 6:09 AM 8/18/2020 – Ex-CIA officer, FBI linguist charged with spying for China | Nice Specialists you have, FBI and CIA! Careful personnel selection… Creme de la creme! But why does it smell like a hot and sour soup all the time? If you scratch a bit more, maybe you will find some Russian spies too, there are plenty of them here in Brooklyn, quite visible in a broad day light. And it will smell like a borscht, too. I guess, Russians will be left for the next year. For now, it is the anti Chinese spies campaign, inspired by their loving friends, the same Ruskies: the big love-hate triangle. – M.N.

Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 67, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, was arrested on Aug. 14, 2020, on a charge that he conspired with a relative of his who also was a former CIA officer to communicate classified information up to the Top Secret level to intelligence officials of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC).
The Criminal Complaint containing the charge was unsealed Monday, August 17, 2020.
Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney for the District of Hawaii Kenji M. Price, Assistant Director of the FBIs Counterintelligence Division Alan E. Kohler Jr., and Special Agent in Charge of the FBIs Honolulu Field Office Eli S. Miranda made the announcement.
The trail of Chinese espionage is long and, sadly, strewn with former American intelligence officers who betrayed their colleagues, their country and its liberal democratic values to support an authoritarian communist regime, said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers. This betrayal is never worth it. Whether immediately, or many years after they thought they got away with it, we will find these traitors and we will bring them to justice. To the Chinese intelligence services, these individuals are expendable. To us, they are sad but urgent reminders of the need to stay vigilant.