A former National Security Agency (NSA) employee was sentenced Monday to nearly 22 years in prison for attempting to sell classified information, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a press release.
Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 32, received a prison sentence of 262 months for attempting to sell classified information. Dalke pled guilty Oct. 2023 to six charges of attempting to transmit classified National Defense Information (NDI) to a foreign agent, according to the court documents, DOJ stated. During his tenure at the NSA from June 6 to July 1, 2022, as an Information Systems Security Designer, Dalke utilized an encrypted email account to send excerpts of three classified documents to an individual he believed to be a Russian agent, between August and September 2022.
