by Nicholas Ballasy
A former Central Intelligence Agency and White House National Security Council official has been indicted for allegedly working for a South Korean intelligence officials in exchange for luxury gifts, according to the Justice Department.
The indictment, which was filed on Monday in a New York federal court and made public Tuesday, charges Sue Mi Terry, who worked for the U.S. government from 2001 to 2011, for providing confidential information to South Korea’s government.
The indictment includes surveillance camera images of Terry carrying a gift bag while officers pay at Bottega Veneta and Louis Vuitton stores in Washington, D.C. in 2019 and 2021.
Her alleged work as an agent began in 2013, two years after she left U.S. government employment, and lasted a decade even after FBI agents warned her in 2014″ that South Korean intelligence might try to influence her by paying for events, according to Reuters.
Terry serves as a fellow for the Council on Foreign Relations, according to her account on X. Her biography has been removed from the council’s website. She is married to Washington Post columnist Max Boot and resides in New York.
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Nicholas Ballasy is a reporter for Just the News.
Photo “Sue Mi Terry” by Eric Gibson/ New America. CC BY 2.0.
