espionage

  • WikiLeaks’ Assange To Be Freed After Pleading Guilty To US Espionage Charge

    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to plead guilty on Wednesday to violating U.S. espionage law, marking the end of his imprisonment in Britain and allowing his return to Australia, concluding a 14-year legal odyssey. Assange, 52, agreed to plead guilty to a single criminal count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified U.S. national defense…

  • Former CIA Officer Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy To Commit Espionage: Conspired With Chinese Intelligence

    Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, a 71-year-old former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer from Honolulu, admitted to conspiring to gather and deliver national defense information to the People’s Republic of China (PRC), according to court documents revealed on Thursday, May 24, 2024. The plea agreement disclosed that Ma and a blood relative, identified as co-conspirator #1,…

  • Ex NSA Employee Sentenced For Trying To Transmit Top Secret Info To Russia

    Former National Security Agency (NSA) employee Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 32, from Colorado Springs, has been sentenced to 262 months in prison for attempting espionage. He tried to transmit classified National Defense Information (NDI) to a representative of the Russian Federation. Dalke pleaded guilty in 2023 to six counts of attempting to transmit classified NDI to…