US official pleads guilty on China espionage
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![Defence analyst Gregg William Bergersen worked in the Pentagon's foreign military sales program. [AFP]](http://www.abc.net.au/ra/img/news/base/us_pentagon_afp_file.jpg?<BR> "Defence analyst Gregg William Bergersen worked in the Pentagon's foreign military sales program. [AFP]")
Defence analyst Gregg William Bergersen worked in the Pentagon's foreign military sales program. [AFP]
The US Justice Department says a defence analyst arrested earlier this year has pleaded guilty to passing classified information to an agent for the Chinese government.
Gregg William Bergersen worked in the Pentagon's foreign military sales program.
He started handing secret information since March last year to Tai Shen Kuo, a Taiwan-born US citizen, who then passed on the information to an unnamed Chinese government official.
If found guilty Mr Bergersen faces up to 10 years in jail for conspiring to disclose national defence information to people not entitled to receive it.
The weapons system policy analyst was arrested in February, along with two Chinese nationals from New Orleans.
