{"id":108713,"date":"2025-08-25T11:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/108713\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T11:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:27:06","slug":"germany-charges-us-citizen-with-spying-for-china-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/108713\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany charges US citizen with spying for China \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the indictment, Martin D. worked for a civilian defense contractor from 2017 until spring 2023 and, starting in 2020, was stationed at a U.S. military base in Germany. In the summer of 2024, prosecutors say, he approached Chinese government officials multiple times and offered to hand over classified information about U.S. military operations.<\/p>\n<p>German authorities first detained the suspect in November 2024 at Frankfurt airport, following an arrest warrant issued by the German Federal Court of Justice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His arrest drew international headlines at the time, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/panorama\/justiz\/spionage-fuer-china-bka-nimmt-ex-mitarbeiter-des-us-militaers-fest-a-60db7081-72dd-4f4f-8e9e-977938a1b86a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">German media reporting<\/a> that he had sought to sell secrets from inside U.S. military installations on German soil. He has remained in pretrial detention since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the indictment, Martin D. worked for a civilian defense contractor from 2017 until spring 2023 and,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,144,6052,19040,6797,7264,35199,71503,10815,4379,3,7270,14809,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-108713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-china","tag-defense","tag-espionage","tag-germany","tag-infrastructure","tag-intelligence","tag-intelligence-services","tag-media","tag-military","tag-news","tag-security","tag-services","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}