Two US Navy sailors have been arrested military information to China including details on wartime exercises Naval operations and critical technical material the two Sailors both based in California were charged with similar moves to provide sensitive intelligence to the Chinese but they were separate cases and it was not clear if the two were quoted or paid by the same Chinese intelligence officer as part of a
larger scheme filter officials at a news conference in San Diego declined to specify whether the sailors were aware of each other's actions Jinja way a 22 year old sailor assigned to the San diego-based USS SX was arrested on Wednesday on a charge related to espionage involving conspiracy to send National Defense information to Chinese officials way who was born in China was approached by a Chinese
intelligence officer while he was applying to become a naturalized U.S citizen prosecutor said and admitted to the officer that he knew the arrangement could affect his application the justice department also charged sailor Wen Hing Zhao based at Naval base Ventura County North of San Diego with conspiring to collect bribesfrom a Chinese intelligence officer in exchange for U.S naval exercise plans
operational orders and photos and videos of electrical systems at Navy facilities the information included operational plans for a U.S military exercise in the indo-pacific region prosecutors say that Zhao also surreptitiously recordedinformation that he handed over the pair of cases also come on the heels of another Insider threat prosecution tied to the U.S military with the justice department in April arresting a
Massachusetts Air National Guardsman on charges of leaking classified military documents about Russia's war in Ukraine and other sensitive National Security topics on Discord a social media platform popular with people playing online games .
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