Allegedly, Terry used her roles at think tanks to secretly advance South Korean interests, including disclosing nonpublic U.S. government information and influencing policy.

[11] Terry subsequently admitted that she resigned from the CIA to avoid being fired over what she described as the agency's "problems" concerning her contacts with South Korean intelligence.

According to the indictment, Terry began acting as an unregistered agent in 2013 and advocated for South Korean policy positions, disclosing nonpublic U.S. government information to South Korean intelligence officers, including providing to her handler in 2022 certain handwritten notes from a private meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

In exchange, she allegedly received designer goods, upscale dinners, and over $37,000 in funding for policy programs she managed at think tanks via covert payments.

[27] Her lawyer, Lee Wolosky, rejected the U.S. government's allegations, saying that Terry upheld views as a scholar and news analyst even when it would clash with Seoul's perspective.

[4][29] The indictment has been criticized by former White House Counsel Gregory B. Craig,[30] attorney Philip Rottner,[31] Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin, and Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe.