Federal prosecutors have charged a former CIA software engineer with stealing secret material from the agency and passing it along to “an organization that purports to publicly disseminate classified, sensitive, and confidential information.”
The superseding indictment announced Monday details charges against Joshua Adam Schulte, 29, pertaining to the theft and transmission of national defense information to “Organization-1” — which, though it’s never named in the indictment, is widely believed to refer to WikiLeaks.
Last year, WikiLeaks published thousands of documents outlining the CIA’s methods of hacking into computers, phones and other devices that connect to the Internet, in the agency’s efforts to spy overseas.
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