Ex-CIA case officer charged with retaining classified information

WASHINGTON, May 8 (Reuters) - A former Central Intelligence Agency officer has been charged with gathering classified defense information he allegedly intended to pass to the Chinese government, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.

Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 53, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Virginia on one count of conspiracy to gather or deliver national defense information to aid a foreign government, and two counts of unlawfully retaining documents related to the national defense.