American soldier arrested for sending classified information to Russian government

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Soldier, Texas soldier arrested after allegedly passing sensitive US battle
tank information to the Russians. He had top security clearance,
and he was arrested about a week ago allegedly attempting
to hand over the information to the Russian government. Private
first Class Taylor Adam Lee, twenty two years of age,

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was an active duty soldier stationed at Fort Bliss. Allegedly
passed on sensitive and classified information to a person he
believed was a Russian Ministry of Defense. He was nabbed
Wednesday and Elpaso on federal charges of attempted transmission of
national defense information to a foreign adversary. In June, the
alleged two FASE soldier began to transmit classified technical information

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to the Russian government about the one two Abrams tank
online and offers it offered his assistance to the Russian Federation.
Lee held a top secret and sensitive compartmented information security
clearance of the FBI. The USA is not happy with
me for trying to expose their weaknesses, said Lee. At

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this point I even volunteered assist the Russian Federation with
them there in any way. In July, Lee met up
with someone whom he believed to be a Russian official
in person handing over an SD card packed with sensitive
information about the M one A two. As the story continues,

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well the soldier, let's find out how he did this.
In July, Lee met up with someone whom he believed
to be a Russian official in person, handing over an
SD card packed with sensitive information about the M one
A two Abrams tank. Lee was not licensed to obtain
several documents on the SD card, and the private continually
told the official it contained sensitive and likely classified information.

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After discussing a specific piece of internal tank hardware during
the July meeting, he allegedly dropped off the part of
a story ward unit in El Paso on July thirty one,
sending a mission accomplished message to a supposed Russian contact.
When he was done. Thanks to the hard work of
Army Encounter Intelligence and the FBI, soldiers who violate their

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oath and become insider threats will absolutely be caught and
brought to justice. So luckily they caught him before anything
serious happened.