A man walks across the seal of the Central Intelligence Agency at the lobby of the Original Headquarters Building at the CIA headquarters. Given the tendency of former government employees involved in national security to go on to work for the private sector or higher education, companies should consider the potential intelligence risk to such employees before posting them to sensitive areas like China.
Incident: Arrested CIA case officer Jerry Chun Shing Lee is believed linked to the death and disappearance of at least 20 CIA sources in China between 2010 and 2012, NBC News reported Jan. 17, citing sources familiar with the case. Lee was arrested Jan. 15 and charged Jan. 16 with unlawfully retaining information pertaining to national defense, the Department of Justice announced Jan. 16. Tactics: While Lee's involvement in the loss of CIA sources has not been officially confirmed, the timeline and details of Lee's case and the CIA's loss of sources do appear to line up. The FBI lured Lee to the United States from his residence in Hong Kong in August 2012 under the pretense of interviewing him for a job.
