FEDS: Colorado Man Tried To Sell Secrets To Foreign Government Provided Excerpts From National Defense Documents To FBI Agent | VIDEO

[9NEWS|VIDEO] A Colorado Springs man and former National Security Agency (NSA) employee who is deeply in debt is accused of attempting to sell classified information to a foreign government, according to a federal criminal complaint.

According to the document, Jareh Dalke, 30, contacted a covert FBI employee and later sent that FBI employee excerpts from three classified documents in exchange for payments in cryptocurrency.

Each excerpt contained classification markings. One excerpt was classified at the Secret level, and two excerpts were classified at the Top Secret level. The alleged crimes occurred in Colorado between Aug. 1 and Sept. 26 of this year.

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