前CIA駐港官員因持有機密情報被捕

A former CIA officer has been arrested for retaining classified information, the US Department of Justice said on Tuesday.

美國司法部(DoJ)週二表示，一名前中央情報局(CIA)官員因保留機密情報被逮捕。

Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 53, a naturalised US citizen, was arrested on Monday on his arrival in New York after FBI agents discovered he was in unauthorised possession of classified information years after he left the intelligence service.

週一，53歲的歸化美國公民Jerry Chun Shing Lee在抵達紐約時被逮捕。此前，美國聯邦調查局(FBI)發現，他在離開CIA多年後在未獲授權的情況下持有機密情報。

Mr Lee began working for the CIA in 1994 as a case officer and held a Top Secret clearance before he left the service in 2007. He has been living in Hong Kong.

Lee從1994年開始在CIA擔任案件官員，在2007年離開CIA之前擁有接觸絕密級(Top Secret)情報的權限。他一直居住在香港。

Court-authorised FBI searches of Mr Lee’s hotel rooms during stays in Hawaii and Virginia found “two small books containing handwritten notes that contained classified information, including but not limited to, true names and phone numbers of assets and covert CIA employees, operational notes from asset meetings, operational meeting locations and locations of covert facilities,” the DoJ statement said.

美國司法部發表聲明稱，FBI在得到法庭授權後，對Lee在夏威夷和弗吉尼亞州逗留期間的酒店房間進行了搜查，發現“兩本里面有手寫筆記的小冊子，筆記內容包含機密情報，包括但不限於線人和祕密CIA僱員的真實姓名和電話號碼、線人會議的行動筆記、行動會議地點和祕密設施的地點。”

If convicted, Mr Lee faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.

如果罪名成立，Lee會被判處最高10年監禁。