The U. S. Department of Justice has charged a former U. S. intelligence officer with attempted espionage.
On Monday, the U. S. Department of Justice announced that a former U. S. intelligence officer had been arrested and charged with attempted espionage for China.
Ron Rockwell Hansen, a Utah resident who previously worked for the U. S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA),”was arrested Saturday afternoon on federal charges including the attempted transmission of national defense information to the People’s Republic of China,” according to a Department of Justice press release.
Hansen was arrested while attempting to travel to Seattle to board a flight that would have taken him to China.
“Ron Rockwell Hansen is a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer who allegedly attempted to transmit national defense information to the People’s Republic of China’s intelligence service (PRCIS) and also allegedly received hundreds of thousands of dollars while illegally acting as an agent of China,” said U. S. Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, in a statement on Monday.
“His alleged actions are a betrayal of our nation’s security and the American people and are an affront to his former intelligence community colleagues. Our intelligence professionals swear an oath to protect our country’s most closely held secrets and the National Security Division will continue to relentlessly pursue justice against those who violate this oath,” Demers added.
