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Updated: 6:45 PM Sep 21, 2009
Ex-Air Force Officer from VA on Trial for Leaking Secrets
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) A former Air Force officer is on trial for providing secret military information to a New Orleans furniture salesman who turned out to be a Chinese spy.
Posted: 8:00 AM Sep 22, 2009 |
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A former Air Force officer is on trial for providing secret military information to a New Orleans furniture salesman who turned out to be a Chinese spy.
Prosecutors told a jury in federal court in Alexandria Monday that James Fondren of Annandale, Virginia took classified information about U.S.-China military relations and divulged it in "opinion papers" that he sold to Tai Shen Kuo, a New Orleans businessman. Kuo took those papers and gave them to an agent working with the Beijing government.
Kuo has already pleaded guilty to espionage and been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison.
Kuo was the first witness Monday against Fondren, the defendant's lawyer Asa Hutchinson told jurors that Fondren was one of many people who was fooled by Kuo.
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