An IT specialist was detained in the United States for trying to transfer classified information to foreigners.

Nathan Vilas Laach, a 28-year-old IT specialist from the United States Department of Defense (DIA) intelligence Agency, was detained in the United States for attempting to transfer classified information to an "officer or agent of a foreign government." This was reported on the website of the US Department of Justice on May 29.

"Laach became a civilian employee of DIA in 2019, where he still works <...> has access to top secret information. In March 2025, the FBI launched an operation after receiving a tip that a certain person — now known as Laach — had offered to provide classified information to a friendly foreign government," the department said.

It is reported that the man declared his rejection of the values of the new American administration and therefore expressed his willingness to "share classified information" to which he had access.

"After numerous communications with an FBI agent, whom Laach allegedly considered an official of a foreign government, he began copying classified information into a notebook on his desk, and for about three days he repeatedly removed information from his workspace. Subsequently, Laach confirmed to the FBI agent that he was ready to hand over the information," the statement said.

In May 2025, he left a flash drive in a pre-arranged location with several confidential documents containing information from the "Classified" or "Top Secret" categories. Later, the man stated that in exchange for providing new documents, he would like to obtain citizenship of the country with whose agent he, in his opinion, collaborated.

Laach was arrested on May 29 during another attempt to transfer classified information allegedly to a representative of a foreign state.

The case is currently being prosecuted by lawyers from the National Security Administration's Counterintelligence and Export Control Division, as well as the Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Earlier, on November 13, a court in the United States sentenced Jack Douglas Teixeira, an American serviceman who was accused of transmitting classified Pentagon documents via an Internet service, to 15 years in prison. The man pleaded guilty to six counts of intentionally storing and transmitting classified information related to national defense in connection with the leak last year of a large number of secret recordings to a group of gamers on the Discord messaging app.