Government protests release of former CIA officer accused of selling secrets to China
Prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia are fighting the release on bond of a former CIA officer accused of selling classified documents to the Chinese government.
Kevin Mallory, 60, of Leesburg was released Thursday by a magistrate judge on a $10,000 bond. The government is appealing that decision, arguing that GPS monitoring and other restrictions are not enough to keep a desperate, experienced spy in the country.
“Someone with the defendant’s training and experience is unlikely to be confined by a detention order requiring him to stay in a house that he is having trouble paying for, when he has a life sentence in prison hanging over his head,” Assistant U.S. Attorney John Gibbs wrote in his motion.
A search of Mallory’s house revealed wigs, fake mustaches and theatrical makeup, Gibbs noted, that could help him conceal his identity.
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