Germany Charges US Citizen For Offering Military Secrets To China

German prosecutors on Monday announced that they had charged an American citizen with allegedly attempting to provide sensitive U.S. military information to China.

Germany’s Federal Prosecutor General said that the man, identified only as Martin D. in line with Germany’s privacy laws, faced charges on Aug. 13 for willingness to serve as a foreign intelligence agent “in a particularly serious case,” according to multiple reports. The suspect notably served as a former contractor for the U.S. Department of Defense from 2017 to 2023, The New York Times (NYT) reported Monday.

Local German media reported that the man was apparently not able to provide any military data to Chinese authorities before he was arrested, according to the Associated Press.

The office of Germany’s federal prosecutor announced in April 2024 the arrest of an aide to an European Union (EU) lawmaker on suspicion of spying on behalf of China, the NYT reported. German authorities during the same month also arrested three people in the west of the country after they were suspected of leaking sensitive naval