CNN: Army Intelligence Analyst Charged with Selling Military Secrets to Contact in China for $42,000

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BERTRAND: "Well, Kate, this is an army sergeant, as you said, who is also an intelligence analyst with the 506th infantry battalion, and he apparently developed a relationship with someone who was only known as 'conspirator A' in these charging documents, but who was posing or at least was saying that they were a foreign national living in Hong Kong, and over the course of over a year, this individual was selling classified information and classified documents according to prosecutors to this individual, and those documents largely related interestingly to the war in Ukraine. This individual conspirator A, allegedly a foreign national, he was asked getting Korbein Schultz, who is this army sergeant, for information relating to advanced American weapons systems and, interestingly, information related to the lessons that the U.S. has learned from supporting Ukraine in its war against Russia, that could then be applied to supporting Taiwan against a potential invasion by China. And so this was, according to prosecutors, a really developed scheme here in which ultimately Korbein Schultz was paid $42,000 for these documents that he was providing to this foreign national. Over the course of a year, those payments got larger and larger, according to which kinds of documents he will be providing. This handler, conspirator A, he was asking for more and more secret information that he could then use for his own purposes.”