In the United States, a civilian military intelligence officer is arrested for attempting to pass classified data to a representative of another state. He stole top secret information from work for three days and passed it on to an undercover FBI agent, whom he believed to be a member of a foreign intelligence agency.
According to a Justice Department statement, Nathan Vilas Latch, 28, had worked as an IT specialist for the intelligence agency since 2019 and had access to top secret documents. In March 2025, the FBI received information that an agency employee was attempting to pass information to a “friendly state.”
In an anonymous letter, the suspect said he “disagreed with and did not share the values of the administration” of Donald Trump and was therefore “willing to share classified information” he had access to, including intelligence reports and raw intelligence.
The FBI was able to contact him. Latch, according to court filings, spent three days transcribing classified data into a notebook and then deposited it in a cache in a park. He called the data a “sample” and offered additional information in exchange for foreign citizenship. The suspect said he did not believe the situation in the US would “improve in the long term”.