US government employee charged with trying to give classified information to a foreign government

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5. Alleged Spy Was Also 22-Year-Old Ex-Grocery Store Clerk Hired by Trump

Alleged Spy Was Also 22-Year-Old Ex-Grocery Store Clerk Hired by Trump (The Daily Beast)

A cybersecurity graduate of Florida Polytechnic University, Nathan Vilas Laatsch is the second national security official in two days whom The Daily Beast has revealed to have virtually no professional experience other than working at a grocery store before being hired by a U.S national security agency at the age of 22.

Laatsch, now 28, a computer scientist with “top secret” clearance at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in Virginia, was hired under the last Trump administration. He was arrested last week, accused of attempting to pass sensitive information to Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND).

When Laatsch was hired for the role with a Top Secret security clearance at the age of 22 in August 2019, he had just stopped working as a cashier at Publix supermarket in Plant City, Florida, according to his LinkedIn account.

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