Germany has arrested a U.S. citizen suspected of offering intelligence on the U.S. military to China that he had acquired while working for troops stationed in Germany, the federal prosecutor's office said in a statement on Thursday.

The accused, who until recently worked for the U.S. Armed Forces in Germany, is strongly suspected of having agreed to act as an intelligence agent for a foreign secret service, the statement said. Earlier this year, he contacted Chinese government ...

He had contacted Chinese government agencies, offered to send sensitive information from the US military to a Chinese intelligence service.

An American citizen who allegedly spied for China was arrested on Thursday, Germany’s federal prosecutor office said, as reported by The Associated Press. The suspect, Martin D., was arrested in Frankfurt and his home was searched,