Taiwanese-American Pleads Guilty to Spying for China
By VOA News
13 May 2008
The U.S. Justice Department says a Taiwanese-American man has pleaded guilty to spying for the Chinese government.
The department says Tai Shen Kuo, 58, admitted in a Virginia court near Washington to a charge of conspiracy to deliver national defense information. The New Orleans businessman, who faces up to life in prison, will be sentenced on August 8.
According to court documents, the alleged offenses took place from March 2007 to February 2008. Kuo is accused of obtaining secret information from Gregg Bergersen, who was a U.S. Defense Department analyst, and then passing it on to a Chinese official. He allegedly provided Bergersen with gifts, cash and trips.
The Justice Department says the Chinese official paid Kuo approximately $50,000.
Bergersen had previously pleaded guilty in the case and faces up to 10 years in jail.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.
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This is absurd. Did anyone begin questioning why an American named, Tai Shen Kuo is facing up to LIFE IN PRISON while the original perpetrator or gossiper in addition to Gregg Bergersen being also an employee of the U.S. government? Did he not take an oath or even have a patriotic obligation not to divulge confidential information in the VERY beginning? Someone please tell me something different. I must be missing something here. Regardless what ties Mr. Tai Shen Kuo has in China, Mr. Gregg Bergersen should also be facing LIFE IN PRAAASOOHN.
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