Breaking 911: Ron Rockwell Hansen, 58, a resident of Syracuse, Utah, and a former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officer, pleaded guilty today in the District of Utah in connection with his attempted transmission of national defense information to the People’s Republic of China. Sentencing is set for Sept. 24, 2019.
Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney John Huber for the District of Utah and Special Agent in Charge Paul Haertel of the FBI’s Salt Lake City Field Office announced the charges.
Hansen retired from the U.S. Army as a Warrant Officer with a background in signals intelligence and human intelligence. He speaks fluent Mandarin-Chinese and Russian. DIA hired Hansen as a civilian intelligence case officer in 2006. Hansen held a Top Secret clearance for many years, and signed several non-disclosure agreements during his tenure at DIA and as a government contractor.
As Hansen admitted in the plea agreement, in early 2014, agents of a Chinese intelligence service targeted Hansen for recruitment and he began meeting with them regularly in China. During those meetings, the Chinese agents described to Hansen the type of information that would interest the Chinese intelligence service. During the course of his relationship with the agents of the Chinese intelligence service, Hansen received hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation for information he provided them, including information he gathered at various industry conferences. more here
Burn him!
“…Hansen pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to gather or deliver national defense information to aid a foreign government.”
(please- pled. Help save irregular verbs!)
They have let him plead to a lessor charge and he’s facing a maximum of 15 years.
He also committed: “…Hansen received hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation for information he provided them.” That is very different than ‘attempting.’ It is completion, not merely attempt. Completion of treasonous acts, for which he should receive the appropriate punishment, and not a lightened sentence.
Ron Hansen – Robert Hanssen
What is it with these guys? The name? The initials?
The spooks ought to stay away from anyone with a similar name.
izlamo delenda est …
He should have put all the secret and classified information on his unsecure home server. That way the chinese could access it, use it and they could donate to his philanthropic foundation to help the Haitians.
He could then use the money as he sees fit, maybe even pay for his daughter’s wedding, sell weapons to islamic terrorists or help the chinese to buy American stockpile of Uranium and get even a larger donations to his foundation.
Nothing to worry about. The FBI couldn’t divine intent. If the FBI started asking questions or subpoena files, he could just bleachbit it and smash it with a hammer.
He would be home free with $Billions of dollars.
Could anybody be this devious and betray this nation for $Billions?
At this point, what difference does it make?
We REALLY need to bring back public hangings…. the sight of traitors twitching on the end of a rope would do FAR MORE to deter than a few years in “Club Fed”.