FBI Employee Pleads Guilty to Leaking ’Sensitive’ Information to China

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After almost 20 years of service with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a 46-year-old Chinese-born electronics technician pleaded guilty to spying for Beijing.

Kun Shan Chun told the federal court judge in New York on Monday that he was guilty of sharing sensitive US government information with China.

According to court documents, Kun Shan Chun, a naturalized US citizen, was charged with acting as a Chinese agent between 2011 and 2016.

He had worked as an electronics technician for the FBI from 1997, where he had top secret security clearance and access to classified government information until his arrest this March.

The prosecution believes that starting from at least 2006, Chun established connections in China, including at least one with a "Chinese Official," which he failed to report to the FBI.

In 2011, the 46-year-old started sharing US secrets with the Chinese.

The court believes that Chun downloaded an organizational chart of the FBI and sent it to the "official".

The IT worker also stands accused of taking pictures of a sensitive area, with details about surveillance technologies used by the FBI.

Chun is scheduled to be sentenced in December and could potentially face 10 years behind bars.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team