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Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 1820 Sidewinder Drive, Ste. 115, Park City, UT 84060 SALT LAKE CITY – A former U.S. intelligence officer was charged with attempted espionage for trying to sell secrets to China, the Justice Department announced Monday. In a 41-page felony complaint, prosecutors claimed Syracuse resident Ron Rockwell Hansen, 58, was paid up to $800,000 over several years for passing along technology and information about U.S. military and intelligence issues. Several years after he left the U.S. government, he allegedly attended trade conferences on behalf of China and shared information he gathered with officials connected to Chinese intelligence. Charging documents also allege he transferred forensic software worth several thousand dollars, in violation of export controls. If convicted, he faces life in prison. No attorney was listed for Hansen in charging documents. No phone number was publicly listed. According to charging documents, Hansen spent more than 20 years in the U.S. Army including time with the Defense Intelligence Agency. He left the military in 2006 but spent several months as a civilian case officer with the DIA. He then started working at a pair of digital forensics companies but repeatedly sought work with the government, according to the felony complaint. Among other offers, he allegedly tried to work as a double agent against Chinese intelligence. The FBI began investigating Hansen in 2014. Unaware of that investigation, he allegedly approached the FBI in 2015 and said Chinese security officials had offered him $300,000 per year to pass along information from U.S. conference and exhibitions. In 2016, Hansen allegedly told an FBI informant that he was doing consulting for China’s Ministry of State Security. Prosecutors say the two plotted this year to sell U.S. plans “regarding potential military intervention with China,” and met for roughly two hours near the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport over the weekend. He was arrested Saturday on his way to the airport, where prosecutors say he planned to board a flight to China. Strategic Economic Development Plan focuses on prosperity through higher incomes; attracting high quality job creation; forging regional development partnerships; and building up the advanced manufacturing, life sciences, defense and outdoor products sectors. Reid was an economic development leader for then-Ogden Mayor Matthew Godfrey until 2006, when talk about building an urban gondola system was increasing. While business and tourism supporters backed the plan, vehement opposition developed and the project eventually went nowhere during Godfrey’s administration. Critics fought the endeavor on environmental, aesthetic and other grounds. Reid said he included the gondola in his recent “audacious” plan because “it will provide an economic boom for the future of this county unlike any other pro- gram of prosperity.” The gondola “will spawn the construction of more hotels, restaurants, and entertainment outlets in the urban core than could have ever been expected,” the report said. But Reid said that a gondola “will only happen if there’s the political will to do it.” County Commissioner James Ebert agreed with the idea that Ogden “needs to be a destination,” and a gondola would be a unique attraction. “But it doesn’t necessarily have to be a gondola,” Ebert said. “Maybe we can create a cultural attraction . the arts, a symphony, a creative community _ branding to put Ogden City on the map.” Ogden Mayor Mike Caldwell and some other city officials aren’t enthusiastic about a gondola revival. “In my opinion, this kind of thing is dead,” Caldwell said. Ogden urban gondola idea resurfaces, county skeptical Consultant claims gondola could spark prosperity Associated Press OGDEN – A plan for an urban gondola rising above the city of Ogden is among the ideas advanced in a report commissioned but largely scuttled by county leaders who have spent about $500,000 on economic-development and public-relations contracts since 2015. The project is in consultant Stuart Reid’s Weber County Prosperity Plan, which the Standard-Examiner obtained a copy of with a public records request. But the commission apparently did not publicize Reid’s report, commissioned in 2015, and since has launched into a different project. That 2018 Weber County BUY ONE, GET ONE FREE AT THE BRASS TAG! 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