When he left his job as an data methods safety designer with the Nationwide Safety Company, Jareh Sebastian Dalke allegedly took just a few categorized paperwork with him. Stealing — after which making an attempt to promote — these secret authorities paperwork might land the Colorado Springs man on loss of life row.
Dalke has been charged with attempting to promote these authorities secrets and techniques to a overseas authorities. The sale went bust when it turned out the potential purchaser Dalke believed was an emissary from a overseas nation was an undercover FBI agent as an alternative, based on a Division of Justice affidavit.
The DOJ stated Dalke approached the spy in late July and that the data he had on the market was “extremely delicate data referring to overseas concentrating on of U.S. methods and knowledge on U.S. cyber operations, amongst different subjects.”
Dalke then offered the angle purchaser with excerpts of the paperwork, which had been delicate and secret in nature.
“Dalke represented to the undercover FBI agent that he was nonetheless employed by the U.S. authorities however stated he was on a short lived task at a subject location,” the DOJ added. “Dalke requested compensation by way of a particular sort of cryptocurrency in trade for the data he possessed and said that he was in monetary want.”
Dalke approached the agent once more to promote secret data he claimed to have in his possession in late August. This time the FBI arrange a safe location for him to transmit the key paperwork on Sept. 28, the place he was arrested. He’s now being charged underneath the Espionage Act, based on DOJ.
