NSA agent arrested for supplying gov't secrets to undercover FBI agent, feds say

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Jareh Sebastian Dalke of Colorado Springs, CO is a 30-year former NSA agent who was arrested after he tried to sell government secrets to an undercover FBI agent he believed was a foreign operative. He made his first court appearance Thursday and was hit with espionage-related charges for allegedly trying to transmit National Defense Information (NDI) to a Russian operative.

Dalke used an encrypted email account to send classified documents to a person he thought worked for the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, but was an FBI agent, the Department of Justice reported.  "Dalke subsequently arranged to transfer additional classified information in his possession to the undercover FBI agent at a location in Denver, Colorado,” the DOJ said.

Dalke was an information systems security designer for the NSA from June and July this year. He was arrested Wednesday when he went to meet with his contact to sell classified information, he thought. 

The DOJ said that Dalke told an undercover FBI agent that he was still working for the agency and that he would exchange secrets for a specific cryptocurrency. The information in question reportedly related to U.S. cyber security.

“On or about Aug. 26, 2022, Dalke requested $85,000 in return for additional information in his possession. Dalke also told the FBI undercover agent that he would share additional information in the future, once he returned to the Washington, D.C., area. Although he was not employed by the NSA while communicating with the FBI, Dalke re-applied to the NSA in August 2022,” the DOJ said.

Court documents show that scumbag allegedly told the undercover agent that he “recently learned that my heritage ties back to your country, which is part of why I have come to you.” [Fun Fact: Dalke, in Russian, means traitorous asshole.]

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According to the charges, one of the documents that were intended to be sold were classified as “secret,” while two more were “top secret.” He was charged with three violations of the Espionage Act.

If convicted, Dalke could be sentenced to life in prison or execution, unlike Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA) who actually had crazy monkey sex with a Chinese spy.

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