{"id":2849,"date":"2008-04-01T01:56:57","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T01:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/surveillance-big-brother\/us-analyst-admits-spying-for-china\/2849\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T01:56:57","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T01:56:57","slug":"us-analyst-admits-spying-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/surveillance-big-brother\/us-analyst-admits-spying-for-china\/","title":{"rendered":"US analyst admits spying for China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\" id=\"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblBody\"><strong>A US Defense Department analyst has pleaded guilty to delivering classified information to a Louisiana businessman working for China. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gregg Bergersen, a weapons analyst at the Defense Security Cooperation Agency who held top secret security clearances, was arrested last month.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors in Virginia alleged he divulged military secrets to a New Orleans furniture salesman, Tai Kuo, who turned over the information to the Chinese government.<\/p>\n<p>Bergersen pleaded guilty Monday to a single count of conspiring to communicate national defense information to a person not entitled to receive it.<\/p>\n<p>He faces up to 10 years in prison when sentenced on June 20.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese government has called the espionage accusations groundless and accused the US of &#8216;Cold War thinking&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail.aspx?id=49780&amp;sectionid=3510203\">AGB<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US Defense Department analyst has pleaded guilty to delivering classified information to a Louisiana businessman working for China. Gregg Bergersen, a weapons analyst at the Defense Security Cooperation Agency who held top secret security clearances, was arrested last month. Prosecutors in Virginia alleged he divulged military secrets to a New Orleans furniture salesman, Tai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1614],"tags":[64,62],"class_list":{"0":"post-2849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-surveillance-big-brother","7":"tag-world-news","8":"tag-spying"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}