️🇺🇸🇬🇧🇷🇺 A 41-year-old US Army soldier was arrested near Gloucester as part of an anti-terrorist police investigation into alleged espionage linked to Russia.
The arrest, which was made on suspicion of offenses under sections 1 and 3 of the National Security Act 2023, involved close cooperation between the British police, MI5, the US military, the FBI and the US military's counterintelligence command.
FBI Director Kash Patel noted that the case comes amid 167 counterintelligence and espionage arrests in the past 21 months, a 53 percent increase, underscoring the severity of insider threats.