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An IT specialist at the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency has been arrested on suspicion of attempting to provide classified information to a foreign government, citing his opposition to President Donald Trump's policies, according to the Justice Department.
Nathan Vilas Laatsch, 28, of Alexandria, Virginia, was charged Thursday with attempting to share classified information with someone he believed represented a foreign government. He was arrested after an FBI operation.
Laatsch, who has worked as an IT specialist in the DIA's Insider Threat Division since 2019, allegedly expressed the intention to share classified materials due to ideological differences with the Trump administration.
“The recent actions of the current administration are extremely troubling to me,” he said in an email reportedly intercepted by the FBI. “I do not agree or disagree with the values of this administration and I intend to act to uphold the values for which the United States once stood.”
The Justice Department said the FBI launched an investigation in March after receiving a tip about Laatsch's intentions. Undercover agents, posing as representatives of a foreign government, communicated with Laatsch, who began transcribing classified information on a notepad on his desk over a three-day period. He then allegedly hid the notes in socks and a lunch box to remove them from the facility.
On May 1, Laatsch allegedly left a USB drive with documents marked 'Secret' and 'Top Secret' at a designated drop-off location at a public park in northern Virginia. He later expressed interest in obtaining citizenship from the foreign country, stating that he did not expect "things here to improve in the long run," prosecutors said.
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