Techie working with the US government arrested for spying, here’s how FBI ‘trapped’ him
[ad_1] The US government has arrested an IT specialist employed by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) for allegedly attempting to transmit national defense information to a foreign government. The arrest happened after the FBI received a tip that an individual offered to provide classified information to a “friendly foreign government.”According to federal prosecutors, Nathan Vilas Laatsch, 28 — who held a Top Secret security clearance and worked in the DIA's Insider Threat Division since 2019 — repeatedly transcribed classified intelligence from his secure workstation and attempted to pass it to an undercover FBI agent posing as a foreign government official.What the court documents revealCourt documents reveal that Laatsch first reached out to the foreign government via an email in March 2025, expressing his willingness to share classified material because he did not "agree or align with the values of this […]