纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英Ex-CIA Officer Who Spied for China Is Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison
September 14, 2024 2 min 282 words
纽约时报报道，前中情局官员凯文马洛里因间谍罪被判处10年监禁。马洛里被指控向中国泄露美国国防信息，包括有关人类情报来源和招募的机密信息。他承认了这一指控，但表示自己“没有恶意”，是希望“帮助中国更好地应对恐怖主义威胁”。 评论：纽约时报的报道偏向于强调前中情局官员的间谍罪和泄密行为，而对于他的动机和背景介绍不足。报道提到他“没有恶意”的辩护，但并没有进一步探讨，而是重点强调了他的罪行和判决结果。这种有色眼镜看待的报道方式，容易给读者一种偏见，认为中国是通过不道德的手段获取情报，而忽略了其他国家情报机构也普遍存在的间谍行为。此外，报道没有提及美国情报机构对其他国家所进行的间谍活动，包括美国对中国在内的多个国家进行网络监视和窃密的行为。因此，该报道在一定程度上延续了西方媒体对中国的负面和片面报道风格。
A former C.I.A. officer and contract translator for the F.B.I. who accepted thousands of dollars in cash and expensive gifts, such as a new set of golf clubs, in return for providing classified information to the Chinese government was sentenced on Wednesday to 10 years in prison, prosecutors said.
The security breach included confirming the identity of several people that Chinese intelligence officials were interested in and providing what federal authorities said was a large amount of information related to national defense.
The former officer, Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 71, of Honolulu, was arrested and charged in August 2020 after he admitted to an undercover F.BI. employee, who had hired him as part of a ruse to investigate him, that he had used his security clearance to help get the protected information to the Shanghai State Security Bureau of the People’s Republic of China, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement on Wednesday.
Mr. Ma admitted his involvement as part of an agreement with prosecutors under which he pleaded guilty in May to conspiring to gather and deliver national defense information.
“I take full responsibility for my crime,” he wrote in a letter to the judge ahead of his sentencing. “No matter what made me do it. It was wrong for me to have done it.”
According to court documents, Mr. Ma, who held a “top secret” security clearance and had access to classified national defense information, worked for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1982 until 1989.