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Ron Hansen, from Syracuse, Utah, the charges said, had retired from the US army where he worked in signals intelligence. Fluent in Mandarin and Russian, he was recruited in 2006 to work for the DIA as a case officer, someone who recruits and manages foreign agents.
Based in a commercial office in Beijing, Hansen made contact with Chinese intelligence and over several years tried to pitch himself to the DIA and FBI as a double agent who would act ultimately for the US, the indictment alleged.
Investigators said he had regular meetings with Chinese intelligence agents that he never reported, used cellphones provided to him by Chinese sources, and retained classified information to which he was not supposed to have access.
They said Hansen was in deep financial trouble between 2013 and 2016, with debts of several hundred thousand dollars. During and after that time he received more than $800,000 from China, often cash that he carried to the US, that he could not explain.
By early this year it was alleged the FBI had found Hansen was seeking from American colleagues information on the US position on North and South Korea, as well as its military operations planned against China, to be sold to his Chinese contacts. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/05/us-double-agent-took-800000-spy-china-ron-rockwell-hansen-allegations
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