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   The Justice Department has arrested and charged an IT contractor   
   with two counts of espionage for allegedly taking secret and top-   
   secret information from the State Department and sending it to a   
   foreign country.   
      
   Abraham Teklu Lemma, a foreign national with U.S. citizenship, was   
   working as an evening help desk technician assigned to the Bureau of   
   Intelligence and Research with the U.S. Department of State when he   
   is alleged to have copied large amounts of classified information,   
   including documents, photographs, notes, maps and satellite imagery,   
   and transmitted it to a foreign country using an encrypted messaging   
   application.   
      
   "Between on or about December 19, 2022, and August 7, 2023, Lemma   
   copied and pasted information from at least 85 Intelligence Reports   
   regarding many topics—the majority of which relate to the Relevant   
   Country. Lemma accessed these Intelligence Reports without a need-   
   to-know the classified information contained therein. During the   
   same period, Lemma accessed at least an additional 48 Intelligence   
   Reports without a need-to-know," according to the criminal   
   complaint.   
      
   He then allegedly transmitted the information to an unnamed   
   individual of an unnamed country through a secure messaging app on   
   "multiple occasions."   
      
   According to the complaint, "In one communication, Lemma sent an   
   image relating to events in the Relevant Country and advised the   
   Foreign Official, “[y]our team analyze this and establish some sort   
   of sense to this,” according to the criminal complaint. In another   
   exchange, the Foreign Official told Lemma, "[w]e making [sic]   
   significant progress on averting the … in few days we will achieve   
   the critical milestones ….not to happen again. Therefore, it’s not a   
   long time we are asking. Good if you can check and [sic] back to me   
   what u can do."   
      
   Similarly, the foreign official advised Lemma, "[i]t is great to   
   identify the forward deployed command centers and logistic centers,"   
   in response to Lema discussing locations in the Relevant Country,"   
   court documents say.   
      
   He has held a top-secret clearance since at least 2020 and obtained   
   a SCI in July of 2021.   
      
   The complaint states that on multiple occasions, Lemma traveled to   
   an unnamed country where he has ties to and before, during and after   
   his travels, and "has downloaded over 100 documents containing   
   classified information from the DOS classified system to CDs and/or   
   DVDs."   
      
   Since June, he was allegedly copying and pasting the classified   
   information into a Microsoft Word document.   
      
   "DOS records further show Lemma then downloaded those Word files   
   from the DOS classified system onto CDs and/or DVDs, which could   
   then be taken out of the SCIF," the court documents say. "The   
   material from Intelligence Reports that Lemma was reviewing and   
   copying what was classified at the TOP SECRET and SECRET levels, and   
   also related primarily to the Relevant Country," the documents read.   
      
   Between July and August of this year, he allegedly copied   
   information from intelligence reports at least 10 times.   
      
   On multiple occasions last month, he was allegedly observed taking   
   notes on a piece of paper of classified information at his desk in   
   the SCIF.   
      
   The Justice Department says other chat logs it uncovered show Lemma   
   was asked about specific intelligence information, and his account   
   information was allegedly accessed in the representative's country   
   when Lemma was no longer there.   
      
   The Justice Department alleges Lemma was paid over $100,000 in   
   exchange for the information.   
      
   ABC News was not immediately able to locate a legal representative   
   for Lemma.   
      
   In addition to his work at the State Department, he is currently   
   employed during the day as a contract management analyst at the   
   Justice Department, according to court records.   
      
   https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/justice-department-arrests-charges-   
   contractor-espionage/story?id=103396163   
      
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