Kevin P. Mallory, 62, of Leesburg, Va., claimed he was trying to expose Chinese espionage methods.
By Tom Jackman Tom Jackman Reporter covering criminal justice locally and nationally Email Bio Follow May 17 at 5:33 PM A former defense and intelligence contractor who sold classified documents to the Chinese government, and then claimed that he was actually working a reverse sting to expose Chinese spying methods, was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison for delivering U.S. secrets to a foreign government.
Mallory then made two trips to China, was given a modified mobile phone by Chinese officials to conduct secret chats, and was paid a total of $25,000 in cash in exchange for documents, the evidence showed. The government said eight of those documents contained classified information, though it was not clear whether six of them were ever actually sent.
Kevin Mallory, 61, was convicted of conspiring to sell secrets to a Chinese spy. Mallory is a former Central Intelligence Agency and Defense Intelligence Agency officer. Prosecutors noted that Mallory had previously been accused of sharing classified information with a defense contractor in 2010, while trying to start his consulting business, and his security clearance was revoked.
Mallory was arrested in June 2017 and elected to take his case to trial, which was closely watched by representatives of several intelligence agencies. In June 2018, a jury convicted Mallory on all four espionage counts presented by the government.
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