The Facts

• Chinese has said that a former government employee — identified by the surname Zhang, once "a core confidential personnel of a state agency" — has been sentenced to death for leaking "a large number of top secret and classified state secrets to foreign intelligence agencies.”

• In a WeChat post, the Chinese Ministry of State Security Wednesday said Zhang had access to "a large number of state secrets," which he leaked using a USB drive. The ministry dubbed the former state employee "weak in character" and unable to "resist the temptation of money."