NSA contractor arrested for alleged theft of top secret info

October 05, 2016 22:58

The FBI has arrested a National Security Agency contractor on suspicion of the theft of top secret classified data and documents in an alleged security breach at the same intelligence agency whose spy secrets were exposed by Edward Snowden.

Disclosure of the documents stolen "could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security of the US", claimed the Justice Department in a press release giving details of the criminal complaint against Harold Thomas Martin III, 51, of Glen Burnie, Maryland.

He was charged with theft of government property and unauthorized removal and retention of classified materials by a government employee or contractor, and, it emerged on Wednesday, has been in detention since a court appearance on 29 August.

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