Both Lt. Tian and Sgt. Zhao were stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington. Mr. Duan served in the U.S. Army from 2013 to 2017 and currently resides in Oregon.
The DOJ says that Sgt. Zhao passed along technical information about U.S. rocket systems and military procedures in the event of a kinetic war with China. The specific information allegedly sold by Sgt. Zhao was not revealed in the indictment. Sgt. Zhao’s co-conspirators in China went unnamed in the indictment. Sgt. Zhao has been charged with conspiracy to gather national defense information, bribery of a public official and theft of government property.