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Former Army Intelligence Collector Arrested for Espionage After Allegedly Trying to Share Secrets with China

Members of the 109th Expeditionary Military Intelligence Battalion conduct a change of command ceremony in 2019.

A former Army soldier who specialized in intelligence collection has been arrested by federal officials on charges that he tried to offer classified information to China, court records show. Joseph Daniel Schmidt, who, according to court documents, served in the Army between 2015 and 2020, “betrayed his promise and potentially placed our nation at risk […]