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A Navy officer is accused of passing secrets to China. He is charged with espionage.
The Navy blacked out the officer’s name in official court documents.
A Navy spokesman tells the Cox Washington Bureau, “Out of consideration for the service member's privacy, prior to a decision for the referral of charges, we are not identifying the officer's at this time.”
The Washington post is identifying the man charged as Lt. Cmdr. Edward Lin. Lin became a U.S. citizen in 2008.
He was born in Taiwan.
He’s accused of providing of passing military secrets to China and Taiwan.
The Navy says the officer was assigned to a group that oversees maritime patrol aircraft and spy planes.
According to a heavily redacted charge sheet released by the Navy, the officer has been charged with five counts of espionage and attempted espionage.
The documents allege that on "divers occasions" the officer did "with intent or reason to believe it would be used to the advantage of a foreign nation, attempt to communicate secret information relating to the national defense to a representative of a foreign government."
He is in a military jail in Virginia. He's also facing prostitution and adultery charges.
Lin was arrested eight months ago.
The case came became public last week during a pre-trial hearing.
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