A former National Security Agency employee in Colorado has been charged with violating the Espionage Act for allegedly trying to send classified national defense information to a foreign government.
Federal prosecutors don’t identify the government in question, though court records say the suspect — Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 30, of Colorado Springs — was trying to make contact with Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service.
Dalke, who holds certification to work as a law enforcement officer in Colorado, made his initial appearance Thursday afternoon in federal court in Denver. He remains in custody and has a detention hearing scheduled for Monday.
He has been charged with three violations of the Espionage Act, which carries a potential death sentence.
Dalke worked for the NSA as an information systems security designer from June 6 to July 1, 2022, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado.
Between August and September, Dalke allegedly used an “encrypted email account to transmit excerpts of three classified documents he had obtained during his employment” to someone he believed was working for a foreign government. The contact was, in reality, an undercover FBI agent.
According to an arrest warrant affidavit, Dalke said that he had reached out through “multiple published channels to gain a response,” including by submitting information to the SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence agency.
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