Former NSA employee charged with trying to give classified information to foreign country

Jareh Dalke, a former National Security Agency (NSA) employee, has been charged with attempting to transmit national security information to a foreign country. Dalke, a resident of Colorado Springs, Colo., was arrested Thursday.

According to the criminal complaint, Dalke spoke online with an undercover FBI agent over the summer. He allegedly sent excerpts from three classified documents and one entire classified document in exchange for payment in cryptocurrency. 

Investigators wrote that Dalke believed he was exchanging the information with an associate from a foreign country "with many interests that are adverse to the United States."