Spy faces life behind bars

A FORMER CIA officer could spend the rest of his life behind bars after pleading guilty on Wednesday to spying for China, according to a Justice Department statement.

Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 54, was arrested in January 2018, suspected of having provided information on a CIA network of informants that was brought down by China between 2010 and 2012.

Lee pleaded guilty before a US District Court judge in the Eastern District of Virginia to conspiring to provide national defence information to China, the statement said.