US government snitch-finder pleads guilty to leaking state secrets to foreign spies
The IT specialist began contacting a foreign government within days of being assigned to the DIA’s Insider Threat Division
Former DIA IT specialist Nathan Vilas Laatsch pleaded guilty to leaking classified information to foreign spies. In March 2025, he offered to provide classified documents to an overseas government. The FBI conducted an undercover operation, leading to Laatsch's arrest in May 2025 after transferring the files to a designated picnic table in an Arlington, Virginia park.
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