America. Former intelligence officer convicted of spying for China has been jailed

Federal prosecutors say a Virginia court sentenced a former CIA officer to 19 years in prison after he pleaded guilty in May to conspiring to spy on behalf of China.

Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 55, left the CIA in 2007 and moved to Hong Kong.

A few years later, in 2010, two Chinese intelligence officers contacted him offering him $100,000 and "lifelong" care for information he had shared during his intelligence work.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars were subsequently deposited into Lee's personal bank account between 2010 and 2013 in exchange for his services.

"Instead of assuming that responsibility, fulfilling his obligation not to disclose information about national defense, he sold me his country and conspired to become a spy for a foreign government, and then repeatedly lied to investigators about his conduct," Federal Attorney General Zachary Terwilliger of Virginia said in a statement.

The Justice Department said the FBI searched Lee's Hotel Room in Hawaii in August 2012 and discovered that he had a manual of addresses and a notebook containing handwritten notes he wrote while working at the CIA before 2004.

The notes included highly sensitive intelligence such as CIA asset names, operational meeting locations, telephone numbers and details of secret facilities.

Lee pleaded guilty in May to conspiring to provide national security information to assist a foreign government.