WASHINGTON: A cyber specialist who worked at the US, National Security Agency (NSA) pleaded guilty on Monday for spying for Russia, western media reported.
According to media reports quoting Justice Department, Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 31, spent less than four weeks at the NSA, before he suddenly left the organization citing family problems at the end of June last year.
The Justice Department said while working at the NSA, the United States government’s huge and powerful signals intelligence agency, he printed out top secret documents.
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It said after leaving the NSA Sebastian put the documents on sale in encrypted online communications to an individual presumed to be a Russian agent. But he was actually dealing with an undercover FBI member.
He was pleaded guilty in US District Court to six counts of trying to transmit classified national defense information to an agent of a foreign government.
