Gregg William Bergersen, 51, a United States Defense Department Analyst was accused of passing American military secrets to the Chinese government.
Bergersen is a weapons systems policy analyst at the Defense Department's Defense Security Cooperation Agency in Arlington, Virginia. He is charged with conspiracy to disclose national defense information illegally to unauthorized individuals.
He was arrested and charged with espionage earlier today.
In an unrelated espionage case, federal authorities in California arrested a former Boeing Co. engineer and charged him with working as an unregistered agent and stealing trade secrets for the Chinese government.
Kenneth Wainstein, assistant attorney general for national security said earlier, "These two cases plainly represent the magnitude of the threat we face, It's a threat to our national security and to our economic position in the world," he added, "a threat that is posed by the relentless efforts by foreign intelligence services to penetrate our security systems."
The question is, Why does China want to know our defense secrets?
I will be posting more as the story develops.
