A computer specialist who briefly worked for the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) pleaded guilty Monday to attempted spying for Russia, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 31, served as an NSA employee for less than a month before abruptly resigning in June 2022, citing family issues.
During his few weeks at the powerful intelligence agency, he printed classified defense documents and offered them for sale – in encrypted form – to a person he believed to be a Russian agent after he resigned, the Justice Department said.
The agent in question was actually an undercover FBI agent.
Jareh Sebastian Dalke pleaded guilty in federal court to six counts of attempting to pass national defense information to an agent of a foreign state.
He will be sentenced on April 26, 2024. He faces a life sentence.