Spying and the exchange of secrets still exists on the human level and not just in cyberspace. In the case of Gregg Bergersen, he will spend time in the slammer for threatening our national security.
Gregg Bergersen, a former official for the Department of Defense,
will go to jail for conspiracy to give classified information to disinterested parties. Bergerson, 51, was caught coordination a transference of information to Tai Shen Kuo. Bergerson will spend 57 months in prison with 3 years of supervised release after time served.
Kuo, a New Orleans businessman, collected information concerning the United States and Taiwan, China's rival. Bergerson was convicted of knowingly passing on classified information to Kuo; what he didn't know was that the information was then being passed onto the People's Republic of China for whom Kuo was under direction. In exchange for the information, Bergersen was given gifts such as vacations and Las Vegas gambling money.
All of these information exchanges, between March 2007 and February 2008, took place while Bergersen was a weapons systems policy analyst for the Department of Defense.
Bergersen had been arrested in February 2008 and plead guilty to the charges the following March.
Kuo, a naturalized U.S. citizen, plead guilty in March of 2008. His sentencing is expected to take place in August and faces life in prison.
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