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The Department of Justice on Wednesday announced an indictment of Henry Kyle Frese, a Defense Intelligence Agency analyst prosecutors say allegedly leaked classified information to two journalists.
According to a court filing in the Eastern District of Virginia, between 2018 and 2019 Frese allegedly provided 'top secret' intelligence reports regarding "a foreign country's weapons systems" to a journalist he lived with and who prosecutors say he was involved with romantically.
In a separate instance in September, prosecutors say that Frese was "captured on court-authorized surveillance" in a cell phone call disclosing 'secret' classified information to a separate journalist. Justice Department officials said Frese did so in an effort to "curry favor" with the journalist, and that he hoped it would benefit the other journalist's career with whom he was allegedly romantically involved.