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Aug 8, 2008 10:15 am US/Central

American Who Spied For China Gets 16 Years

 CBS News Interactive: 21st Century Spying

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) ― A New Orleans furniture salesman who spied for the People's Republic of China and helped the Beijing government obtain secret U.S. military information has been sentenced to nearly 16 years in prison.

The sentence was in line with what prosecutors had requested.

Fifty-eight-year-old Tai Kuo is a native of Taiwan and a naturalized U.S. citizen. He pleaded guilty in May to espionage after admitting he obtained classified information about U.S.-Taiwan military relations from a Pentagon analyst.

Kuo had told the analyst he was working for Taiwan when in fact he was working for China.

The Pentagon analyst who gave the secrets to Kuo, Gregg Bergersen, was sentenced to nearly five years in prison.

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