A $230k debt and a LinkedIn message led an ex-CIA officer to spy for China

Kevin Mallory, a former CIA officer, was $230,000 in debt and months behind on his mortgage in early 2017, court records show, when he received a LinkedIn message from a Chinese headhunter. Mallory’s sentencing comes amid increasing alarm among U.S. intelligence officials about the breadth and intensity of Chinese espionage against the United States — through hacking, recruitment of American agents and infiltration of Chinese operatives into U.S. companies and organizations. And Mallory sent the information about the couple working on behalf of the Defense Intelligence Agency after he learned they would be traveling to the China in the summer of 2017, according to court records.

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