Defense Intelligence Agency employee charged with leaking classified information to journalists
Source: Washington Post
A counter-terrorism analyst for the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency has been charged with leaking top secret details about a foreign country’s weapons systems to two journalists, including a reporter with whom he was apparently romantically involved, according to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday.
Henry K. Frese, 30, of Alexandria, Va., “was caught red-handed disclosing sensitive national security information for personal gain,” the Justice Department said in a statement announcing the indictment. “The unauthorized disclosure of TOP SECRET information could reasonably be expected to cause exceptionally grave harm to the national security of the United States.” Frese, who had a high-level security clearance, is due to appear in U.S. District Court in Alexandria on Wednesday, charged with willful transmission of national defense information. Authorities said he was arrested Wednesday morning when he arrived at his workplace in Virginia.
The two journalists were not immediately identified, but one of them, a woman, was apparently romantically involved with Frese and shared an Alexandria residence with him from August 2017 to August 2018, authorities said. They would not say whether she works for a U.S.- or foreign-based news organization. The top secret information that Frese allegedly gave her, in April and May 2018, concerned the capabilities of a foreign nation’s weapons systems. Authorities declined to identify the foreign country.
At the woman’s urging, Frese allegedly passed additional top secret information to one of her colleagues at “an affiliated but different news outlet.” Authorities said Frese’s apparent motive was to help the woman advance in her career.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/defense-intelligence-agency-employee-charged-with-leaking-classified-information-to-journalists/2019/10/09/6fbd1050-eaa6-11e9-9306-47cb0324fd44_story.html
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Oct. 9, 2019 at 1:32 p.m. EDT
Henry Kyle Frese, a counterterrorism analyst, is accused in federal court in Alexandria, Va., of providing classified material to two journalists in 2018 and 2019. One report related to a foreign country’s weapon systems, court papers state.
A Justice Department statement said Frese, 30, “was caught red-handed disclosing sensitive national security information.”
This is a developing story. It will be updated.
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