In a fitting end to an unsettling saga, a former CIA officer who gladly betrayed the United States for a pittance will likely spend the rest of his life suffering the consequences. Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 71, originally pleaded guilty in May to conspiring to gather and deliver national defense information to the People’s Republic of China, a major American adversary. The turncoat was born in Hong Kong, but eventually settled in Honolulu, Hawaii. According to the Department of Justice, Ma worked for the CIA from 1982 until 1989. Ma and a relative, named as a co-conspirator by the DOJ, both held…
