US army intelligence analyst charged with selling secrets to China

News Snapshot:

A US army intelligence analyst was arrested on Thursday and charged with conspiring to sell sensitive defense information to China. Federal prosecutors charged Korbein Schultz with conspiracy to disclose national defense information, exporting defense articles and technical data without a license, and bribery of a public official, the US justice department said in a press release. Schultz, who was arrested at Kentucky’s Fort Campbell, was paid about $42,000 to provide an individual he believed lived in Hong Kong with information about US plans in the event Taiwan came under military attack, according to the release. Schultz put “personal profit above...