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Ex-Federal IT Contractor Pleads Guilty to Spying for Ethiopia; FBI Affidavit Describes Folded Notes and 'Unclassified' Disks Carried Out of a Secure Facility
Abraham Teklu Lemma, a former IT contractor at the State Department, the Justice Department and the National Reconnaissance Office, pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to give Ethiopian officials classified U.S. defense information. The FBI affidavit behind his 2023 arrest, read by The Digital Free Press, describes agents observing him fold notes into his pocket and burn Top Secret material onto disks labeled "Unclassified."

Yossi Schmidt
22 hours ago3 min read
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