May 1, 2024 at 03:12AM
A former NSA employee has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for attempting to transfer classified documents to Russia. Despite a short tenure at NSA, Jareh Dalke made contact with an undercover FBI agent posing as a Russian, and transmitted top-secret documents in exchange for money. Dalke pleaded guilty to the crime in October 2023.
Certainly! From the meeting notes, the key points are as follows:
– A former employee of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), Jareh Sebastian Dalke, has been sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison for attempting to transfer classified documents to Russia.
– FBI Director Christopher Wray emphasized that this serves as a stark warning to those entrusted with protecting national defense information.
– Dalke, employed as an Information Systems Security Designer for a short period, made contact with a person he thought was a Russian agent, but who was actually an undercover FBI agent.
– He emailed snippets of three top-secret National Defense Information (NDI) documents to the purported Russian agent using an encrypted email account and demanded $85,000 in return for sharing all the files in his possession.
– He was arrested after transferring five files to the supposed Russian spy and pleaded guilty to the crime in October 2023.
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