Weapons Analyst Pleads Guilty in China Spying Case

by Jarrett Martineau | March 31, 2008 at 08:13 pm

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The covert world of international intelligence gathering rarely surfaces in the mainstream media but, when it does, it is generally when a serious security breach has been unearthed.

I think the trading of military secrets to foreign agents probably qualifies, no?

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Defense Department analyst pleaded guilty Monday to delivering classified information about U.S. and Taiwanese military relations to a New Orleans furniture salesman who turned out to be working with the Chinese government.

Gregg Bergersen, 51, of Alexandria, a weapons analyst at the Defense Security Cooperation Agency who held top secret security clearances, was arrested last month. Prosecutors alleged he divulged military secrets to Louisiana businessman Tai Kuo, who turned the information over to a Chinese foreign agent.

In a plea hearing Monday, Bergersen pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiring to communicate national defense information to a person not entitled to receive it. He faces up to 10 years in prison when sentenced in June.