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Former CIA IT Expert Pleads Guilty | Texas News
A former DIA IT specialist with top security clearance, Nathan Laatsch, pleaded guilty to attempting to leak classified U.S. intelligence to a foreign government—likely Germany—driven by political dissent against the Trump administration. He copied sensitive documents, hid them in his socks, and left them in a public park for an undercover agent posing as a foreign contact. Though he never made direct contact with the actual foreign entity, his actions endangered national security. Arrested in May 2023 after meeting the agent again, Laatsch faces life in prison at sentencing in January 2027…
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