Pentagon worker gets 5 years for aiding China spy

WASHINGTON, (AFP) — A Pentagon employee was sentenced Friday to 57 months in jail for handing secret military documents over to a Chinese government spy, including classified information on US arms sales to Taiwan.

Gregg William Bergersen, 51, pleaded guilty in March of conspiring to hand national defense information over to non-cleared personnel and had faced a maximum sentence of 10 years.

On his release Bergersen will have an additional three years of supervised probation.

Judge Leonie Brinkema stated the sentence "was sufficient as a deterrent", according to Bergersen's lawyer Mark Cummings.

The Chinese agent, Taiwan-born Tai Shen Kuo, is due to be sentenced on August 8, Cummings told AFP. He faces life in prison for spying, the FBI said in a statement.

Bergersen was a security and defense weapons systems analyst for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, which implements the Pentagon's foreign military sales program, and ...