Security News > 2010 > December > Navy serviceman accused of trying to sell classified military documents

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/06/AR2010120607109.html By Ellen Nakashima Washington Post Staff Writer December 6, 2010 A Navy intelligence specialist at the Joint Special Operations Command has been accused of taking top secret documents from military networks and offering to sell them to an investigator posing as a foreign agent. Petty Officer Bryan Minkyu Martin was arrested last week by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, after a sting operation in which he passed classified documents to an FBI undercover agent claiming to be an intelligence officer of a foreign country, according to the affidavit for a search warrant filed last week in a federal court in North Carolina. Martin, who enlisted in 2007 and was assigned to the Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, has not been charged. An attorney for Martin could not be contacted Tuesday night. The military is investigating Martin under some of the same Espionage Act statutes as those being used to investigate Pfc. Bradley E. Manning, the Army intelligence analyst suspected of leaking cables and other classified documents to WikiLeaks. According to the affidavit, Martin met the agent at a Hampton Inn in Spring Lake, N.C., on Nov. 15. He is alleged to have described his access to various classified systems and offered to bring two classified documents to their next meeting. He also allegedly said that he was seeking "long-term financial reimbursement," that his current assignment focused on Afghanistan and that he would be working for the Defense Intelligence Agency. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/

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