On June 22, Kevin Patrick Mallory was brought before a US federal judge
for his first hearing on charges that he sold highly classified
documents to a Chinese intelligence agent.
These documents, which are
considered "National Defense Information," included at least one Top
Secret document and three classified as Secret and were found on a phone
Mallory had been provided by his Chinese contacts.
Mallory, a
60-year-old former Central Intelligence Agency employee had thought the documents were in messages that had
been deleted automatically from the device. Mallory faces life in prison
if convicted. more