Conviction of an employee of the American National Security Agency for the crime of espionage

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, the US Department of Justice announced that 32-year-old Sebastian Dalk , a former employee of the US National Security Agency, was sentenced to about 22 years in prison for the crime of attempted espionage He was convicted.

Accordingly, Mr. Dalek was arrested for attempting to pass classified information to someone he believed to be a Russian agent, but later found out to be an undercover FBI agent.

According to this report, he was found guilty in court in October last year of six counts of attempting to transmit classified national defense information. He was sentenced to 21 years and 10 months in prison yesterday.

FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a statement: This sentence should serve as a serious warning to all those who are responsible for protecting national defense information and that this The result is betrayal of this trust.

The ministry stated that Dalek, who worked as a security designer for information systems at the US National Security Agency, had requested $85,000 for all this information.

while a while ago Victor Manuel Rocha Former American diplomat accused of spying for Cuba For several decades, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Ministry of Justice Mr. Rocha to take measures towards The improvement of the interests of the Cuban government has been accused. Meanwhile, according to federal laws, people who want to act as agents of a foreign country inside the United States must register their names with the Ministry of Justice.

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This is not the first time that current and former American officials They are arrested or accused of foreign state involvement. Earlier A court in New York found a former police officer of this city guilty because he was an illegal Chinese agent on American soil.

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