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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nKevin Patrick Mallory, 60, of Leesburg, Virginia, a self-employed consultant with GlobalEx LLC appeared in court yesterday to answer to charges of \u201cmaking materially false statements to the FBI\u201d and \u201cgathering or delivering defense information to aid a foreign government.\u201d, according to the Department of Justice<\/a>;<\/p>\n During a voluntary interview with FBI agents on May 24, Mallory stated that PRC1 represented himself as working for a People\u2019s Republic of China think tank, the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS). Since at least 2014, the FBI has assessed that Chinese intelligence officers have used SASS affiliation as cover identities.<\/p>\n Mallory told FBI agents he traveled to Shanghai separately in March and April to meet with PRC1 and PRC1\u2019s boss. After Mallory consented to a review of a device he had been using to communicate with PRC1, FBI viewed a message from Mallory to PRC1 in which Mallory stated that he had blacked out security classification markings on documents transmitted to PRC1. Analysis of the device also revealed a handwritten index describing eight different documents. Four of the eight documents listed in the index were found stored on the device, with three containing classified information pertaining to the same U.S. government agency. One of those documents was classified TOP SECRET, while the remaining two documents were classified SECRET.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n