An IT specialist employed by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) was arrested on May 29 in Northern Virginia and charged with attempting to transmit classified information to an officer or agent of a foreign government, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said.
Nathan Vilas Laatsch, 28, of Alexandria, Virginia, was arrested while allegedly trying to transmit multiple classified documents to a person he believed was a foreign government official, but who was actually an undercover FBI agent.
The department did not state which country Laatsch believed the individual to be from but described it as a “friendly foreign government.”
In a statement posted to social media platform X, FBI Director Kash Patel said Laatsch’s case “underscores the persistent risk of insider threats.”…