Ex-CIA officer Jerry Chun Shing Lee held 'in China spying case'
A former CIA officer has been arrested in the US on charges of unlawful retention of classified information. Jerry Chun Shing Lee, a naturalised US citizen, was held at New York's JFK airport on Monday, the US justice department said. He worked for the CIA between 1994 and 2007, when he left for Hong Kong. The case is thought to be linked to an FBI investigation, which began in 2012, into the crippling of the CIA's spy operation in China. In the two years before, some 20 informants had been killed or jailed - one of the most disastrous failures of US intelligence in recent years. But officials did not know whether to blame a mole or data hack. US media, quoting sources close to the inquiry, say investigators now suspect Mr Lee of helping China. China crippled CIA by killing US sources, says New York Times Who is Jerry Chun Shing Lee? Mr Lee, also known as Zhen Cheng Li, served in the US Army from 1982-86, say court documents. He began his CIA career in 19...