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LOS ANGELES, Oct 31 — Two Chinese men who admitted trying to recruit US military service members to spy for Beijing were imprisoned in California on Friday. Liren Lai and Yuance Chen were ordered to serve 30 months in a federal lockup and to undergo three years of supervised release after pleading guilty to acting on the orders of China’s Ministry of State Security. The US Department of Justice said the men had carried out clandestine intelligence activities in the United States that included facilitating “dead drop” cash payments in exchange for information related to the national security of the…
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