【Global Network News Report, by Reporter Zhao Jiandong】According to comprehensive reports from ABC News and RT on the 30th, the US Department of Justice announced that a 28-year-old IT expert named Nathan Rathke from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), who opposes the Trump administration's policies, was suspected of providing classified intelligence to a foreign government and was arrested on the 29th. Court documents show that Rathke hid classified intelligence in socks and took it out of the Defense Intelligence Agency, where he was caught on the spot during the transaction.
ABC reported that the FBI received a tip-off in March this year and began investigating Rathke. It is said that he "does not recognize or agree with the values of the current administration" and expressed willingness to provide "finished intelligence, raw intelligence data, and various confidential documents" to a certain foreign government.
US Department of Justice, photo source: US media
ABC reported that after FBI agents posing as foreign representatives contacted Rathke, he copied classified intelligence notes at his workstation for three consecutive days and stacked these notes into cubes before hiding them in his socks to take away. Additionally, other employees saw him placing multiple pages of notes at the bottom of his lunch box to take out. On May 1st, he left a U-disk containing "Secret/Top Secret" files in a park in Virginia, and on May 29th, he was arrested while attempting to leak again at another location.
Court documents show that this IT expert who joined the US Defense Intelligence Agency in 2019 complained to an undercover FBI agent: "The actions of the current administration make me extremely uneasy, and the situation will not improve in the long run," and expressed interest in the citizenship of a certain country.
RT reported that the US Department of Justice did not disclose the name of the involved country, only stating that it is an "ally of the United States."
FBI Director Patel posted on social media on the 30th: "This case highlights the persistent risk of insider threats." RT reported that this is the latest major leakage case in recent years in the United States. In August last year, a Pentagon employee was arrested while attempting to carry top-secret documents to Mexico; in 2023, National Guard member Trezela was sentenced to 15 years in prison for leaking hundreds of Pentagon confidential documents on the social platform Discord.
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