A former NSA employee has been sentenced to 262 months in prison for trying to freelance as a Russian spy.
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In his arraignment yesterday, Jareh Sebastian Dalke pleaded guilty to six counts of attempted transmission of top secret information to a foreign agent notified by the US Department of Justice.
He had worked at the NSA as an information systems security designer for just under a month from June to July 2022, and made quick work of that short period by collecting top-secret National Defense Intelligence (NDI) documents.
Between August and September of that year, shortly after leaving the NSA, Dalke contacted a person he believed to be a Russian agent. To prove his "legitimate access and willingness to share," he then emailed the apparent spy excerpts of three top-secret, classified documents with NDI. Dalke then said he would be willing to sell all the documents and more for just $85k.
