Former CIA agent accused of spying on China: # He's willing to accept it #

The method prosecutors say was used to force him to discover the nature of his spying has the value of a spying novel in itself.

Court documents say 67-year-old Alexander Yuk Ching Ma was charged with breaking US spying laws, writes NBC, the Periscope.

Prosecutors said he was in touch. The CIA in 1967 and then served as CIA official until retirement in 1989.

For part of this period, he had been sent to work in East Asia and the Pacific region.

Twelve years after he retired, prosecutors said on Monday that Mae met with at least five officials at China's State Security Ministry in a hotel room in Hong Kong, where there were <x0, discovered an enormous amount of classified defence information” including the facts about the internal organisation of the CIA, the method for hidden communication, and the identities of CIA officials. /Periscope