Pentagon IT Worker Accused Of Attempting To Trade Intel To Foreign Government In Return For Citizenship

The Washington Post reports:

A computer scientist at the Defense Intelligence Agency who monitored insider threats became one himself, prosecutors alleged, attempting to trade classified information for citizenship in a friendly country because of disagreements with the Trump administration.

Nathan Vilas Laatsch, 28, was arrested Thursday and charged with gathering defense information to aid a foreign government, an Espionage Act offense. He did not successfully establish contact with the nation, which is not identified in case filings, but court documents say he offered in an email to provide classified records.

U.S. officials were tipped off to Laatsch’s outreach in March, and an FBI agent posing as a foreign official communicated with Laatsch over several weeks, arranging for him to drop off classified materials in an Arlington County park, according to court records.

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