Utah US intelligence officer pleads guilty to selling secrets to China

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Former U.S. intelligence officer, Ron Rockwell Hansen, was arrested in June 2018 for venturing to transmit information on national defense from the Department of Justice (DOJ) to the People’s Republic of China.

Former military intelligence officer, Ron Rockwell Hansen, is a resident of Syracuse, Utah. According to a the DOJ, the 58-year-old pleaded guilty in June 2018 to the 15-count indictment charging him with:

Attempt to gather or deliver defense information,
Acting as an agent of a foreign government, bulk cash smuggling,
Structuring monetary transactions, and
Smuggling goods from the United States.