A former U.S. military pilot from San Diego is accused of lying about repeatedly meeting with and receiving cash payments from a Chinese national with links to intelligence services, the Justice Department (DOJ) has said. According to court documents filed in federal court, Shapour Moinian, a former helicopter pilot for the U.S. Army, for several years worked for various defense contractors and as a civilian contractor for the U.S. Navy. Moinian, from Mira Mesa, was arrested on Oct. 1, and is charged with one count of failing to disclose foreign contacts when required as part of routine national security background checks from 2017 to 2020. The 66-year-old allegedly first communicated in 2017 with the Chinese national, who posed as a recruiter on a job-services platform. The DOJ said the method has been publicly identified by both Germany and France as one used by Chinese intelligence services. Moinian, while working as …