US Man Guilty in Espionage Trial

World | February 21, 2003, Friday // 00:00

A former US intelligence analyst has been found guilty of trying to spy for Iraq and China. Brian Regan, 40-years-old and a father of four, showed no emotion as a jury returned its verdict after five days of deliberation. The 12-person federal jury must now decide whether his efforts to sell top-secret defence information to Iraq merit the death penalty. If executed, Regan would be the first person to be sentenced to death for espionage in the US since 1953. He was found not guilty on another charge of trying to spy for Libya.

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