Jareh Dalke U.S. intelligence employee arrested on espionage-related charges

9/29/2022

RawNews1st – Prosecutors on Thursday said Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 30, was an Information Systems Security Designer for the National Security Agency from June 6, 2022, to July 1, 2022.

According to a criminal complaint, between August and September 2022, Dalke used an encrypted email account to transmit excerpts of three classified documents he had obtained during his employment to an undercover FBI agent he believed to be working for a foreign government.

Dalke later arranged to transfer more classified information to the undercover FBI agent in Denver, Colorado, according to the complaint. The FBI arrested Dalke on Sept. 28, after Dalke arrived at the meeting point in Denver.

The criminal complaint says Dalke told that the undercover agent he had taken highly sensitive information relating to foreign targeting of U.S. systems, as well as information on U.S. cyber operations.

Dalke told the agent he was still employed by the U.S. government, and asked for cryptocurrency in exchange for the information, the complaint says.

The complaint doesn’t identify the foreign government, but it says that in trying to verify the agent, Dalke reached out to the SVR, which is a Russian spy agency.

Dalke is charged with three violations of the Espionage Act, which makes it a crime to transmit or attempt to transmit national defense information to a representative of a foreign nation with intent or reason to believe that information could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation.

Dalke then requested $85,000 in return for more information, the complaint says. He reapplied for a job at the NSA in August.