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June 19, 2018, 7:37 PM UTC

Former CIA Employee Indicted in Leak of Classified U.S. Secrets

David Glovin
David Glovin
Bloomberg News

A former CIA employee has been indicted on federal charges of leaking classified national defense secrets.Joshua Adam Schulte, 29, was charged in a 13-count superseding indictment on Monday, about 10 months after he was first arrested on charges of possession of child pornography, federal officials said in New York.Prosecutors said Schulte stole the classified information in 2016 and passed it to an outside organization that wasn’t named in court papers, but was identified by the New York Times as WikiLeaks. “The organization purports to publicly disseminate classified, sensitive, and confidential information,” the Justice Department said in a statement, which added ...

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