WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department said on Friday that a State Department employee was arrested on criminal charges related to alleged participation in a conspiracy to gather, transmit, or lose national defense information.
The State Department employee, who works in Washington, held a top secret security clearance and had access to information up to the secret level within his department workspace, the Justice Department said in a statement.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Ismail Shakil)
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