A spy with UAVs, an Ethiopian agent was sentenced in the US to remove state secrets from a safe place, it turned out that it was enough to copy it by hand and put the piece of paper in your pocket. Avraham Teklo Lema, a 53-year-old Maryland resident who worked as a contractor for the National Defense Intelligence Agency, the State Department and the Department of Justice, has now pleaded guilty to conspiring to transfer defense information to a foreign country. According to the terms of the plea deal, he faces 10 to 21 years in prison. From 2021 until his arrest in August 2023, Lema handed dozens of documents, photographs and notes to officials in Ethiopia, some of them with the highest level of secrecy. The recipients were the people of the political, military and intelligence leadership of the country, and the information itself mainly referred to the war that was going on in Ethiopia at the time. Using administrator privileges, he downloaded files from locked storage, copying what he couldn't extract electronically by hand. Prosecutors say he also encouraged his interlocutors to act against militias fighting the government, writing in December 2021 that "these people must be dealt with once and for all" and asking that day to "send in drones." Agents of African countries are rarely found in the United States, and almost all known cases are associated with Egypt. In 2022, Manhattan resident Pierre Girguis was arrested for working for Egyptian services, for which he followed critics of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. A year later, Senator Robert Menendez was accused of working undercover for the Egyptian state, and eventually received 11 years. All these stories were related to an article about unregistered work for a foreign country, and not about espionage, since the clients were mainly interested in their diaspora. - where politics is hotter than the equator, support us.

A spy with UAVs, an Ethiopian agent was sentenced in the US to remove state secrets from a safe place, it turned out that it was enough to copy it by hand and put the piece of paper in your pocket. Avraham Teklo Lema, a 53-year-old Maryland resident who worked as a contractor for the National Defense Intelligence Agency, the State Department and the Department of Justice, has now pleaded guilty to conspiring to transfer defense information to a foreign country. According to the terms of the plea deal, he faces 10 to 21 years in prison. From 2021 until his arrest in August 2023, Lema handed dozens of documents, photographs and notes to officials in Ethiopia, some of them with the highest level of secrecy. The recipients were the people of the political, military and intelligence leadership of the country, and the information itself mainly referred to the war that was going on in Ethiopia at the time. Using administrator privileges, he downloaded files from locked storage, copying what he couldn't extract electronically by hand. Prosecutors say he also encouraged his interlocutors to act against militias fighting the government, writing in December 2021 that "these people must be dealt with once and for all" and asking that day to "send in drones." Agents of African countries are rarely found in the United States, and almost all known cases are associated with Egypt. In 2022, Manhattan resident Pierre Girguis was arrested for working for Egyptian services, for which he followed critics of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. A year later, Senator Robert Menendez was accused of working undercover for the Egyptian state, and eventually received 11 years. All these stories were related to an article about unregistered work for a foreign country, and not about espionage, since the clients were mainly interested in their diaspora. - where politics is hotter than the equator, support us.