Two active-duty U.S. soldiers and one former soldier were arrested Thursday and charged with giving classified information to the Chinese.

Indictments by federal grand juries in the District of Oregon and the Western District of Washington accuse the three of giving documents and hard drives about U.S. weapons to contacts in China as recently as December, the U.S. attorney for the District of Oregon said in a press release.

Sgt. Jian Zhao was charged for conspiring to obtain and transmit national defense information to an individual not authorized to receive it and also for bribery and theft of government property.

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