A former worker of the U.S. Nationwide Safety Company (NSA) has been sentenced to just about 22 years (262 months) in jail for making an attempt to switch categorized paperwork to Russia.
“This sentence should serve as a stark warning to all those entrusted with protecting national defense information that there are consequences to betraying that trust,” mentioned FBI Director Christopher Wray.
Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 32, of Colorado Springs was employed as an Info Programs Safety Designer between June 6 to July 1, 2022, throughout which period he had entry to delicate info.
Regardless of his brief tenure on the intelligence company, Dalke is alleged to have made contact with an individual he thought was a Russian agent someday between August and September of that 12 months. In actuality, the particular person was an spy working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
To display his “legitimate access and willingness to share,” he then emailed the purported Russian agent snippets of three top-secret Nationwide Protection Info (NDI) paperwork that have been obtained throughout his employment utilizing an encrypted electronic mail account.
Dalke, who demanded $85,000 in return for sharing all of the information in his possession, claimed the data could be of worth to Russia and instructed his contact that he would share extra paperwork upon his return to Washington, D.C.
He was subsequently arrested on September 28, 2022, shortly after he transferred 5 information to the supposed Russian spy at Union Station in downtown Denver by way of a laptop computer pc. The defendant pleaded responsible to the crime in October 2023.
“As part of his plea agreement, Dalke admitted that he willfully transmitted files to the FBI online covert employee with the intent and reason to believe the information would be used to injure the United States and to benefit Russia,” the U.S. Justice Division mentioned.
