A former agent was arrested in US accused of spying for China

Beijing. January 17. Silkroadnews - Hong Kong resident Jerry Chun Shing Lee is accused of illicitly carrying notebooks listing the names of CIA spies and helping China identify informants, the South China Morning Post reports.
“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,” the report reads.
Jerry Chun Shing Lee, a US citizen, worked for the CIA from 1994 to 2007 and used his official position to keep secret information.
The Justice Department said that in 2012, the FBI agents searched his hotel rooms during trips to Virginia and Hawaii. They found two notebooks with handwritten information on details such as the number of spy recruits and secret CIA employees and their real names.
The New York Times reported that the Justice Department suspected Lee “of helping China identify the agency’s informants.”
Lee was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.
The case is being prosecuted by the US Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of Virginia.
Lee and his family left Hong Kong in August 2012 to travel to northern Virginia. Along the way, they stayed in hotels where the FBI found the notebooks. The information ranged in terms of secrecy, but there was also a top secret information, “the disclosure of which could cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security of the United States,” the report said.
Last year, the New York Times reported that from 2010 to the end of 2012, at least twelve people were killed in China that used to be the CIA agents and at least six of the CIA informants were imprisoned.