The US Embassy in Beijing (Photo: Reuters) In the nation's worst espionage scandal for two decades, they added. (CIA) for years, divulging information about China's overseas spy network

The ministry's own investigations found the aide had been working for the Central Intelligence Agency

The official, an aide to a vice minister, was taken into custody sometime between January and March after the ministry became alarmed last year over repeated incidents of Chinese agents being compromised in the United States, they said. China arrests official on suspicion of spying for US.Hu personally intervened this year, ordering an investigation into the case after the Ministry of State Security arrested one of its own officials for passing information to the Americans, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said. US agents in a major setback that angered President Hu Jintao, sources said. Is suspected to have compromised some of China's A Chinese state-security official arrested earlier this year on allegations of spying for Washington

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