WASHINGTON — A Defense Department official was charged Wednesday with feeding classified information to an agent for the Chinese government. A criminal complaint unsealed in federal court in Virginia accuses James Fondren Jr. of conspiring to relay classified information to a foreign agent. Authorities say Fondren was involved for years in what spy-hunters call a "false flag" operation _ believing he was feeding information to one government, when in fact his handler was working for another country. Court papers charge that Fondren, 62, provided information to a friend named Tai Shen Kuo, a naturalized U.S.