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DIA Insider Threat Specialist Pleads Guilty After FBI Catches Classified Dead Drop

Nathan Vilas Latsch, 29, a Defense Intelligence Agency Insider Threat Division IT specialist, pleaded guilty on August 26, 2026 to attempted transmission of national defense information after an FBI undercover officer posed as his foreign government contact and monitored two dead drops in northern Virginia before arresting him on May 29, 2025.

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Russian Intelligence Weapons Cache Exposed Near Berlin, Suspect Held in Romania

Germany wants a suspected Russian intelligence proxy extradited from Romania after the same man was connected to both a parcel bomb plot and a cache of firearms hidden in a Berlin-area forest, offering the clearest public evidence yet of Moscow running pre-positioned assets and proxy networks simultaneously across at least two NATO states.

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