Feds: Sailor Sold Top Secret Documents
Intelligence specialist, 22, snared in undercover op
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DECEMBER 6--A Naval intelligence specialist who had access to several highly classified military computer systems last month sold dozens of secret and top secret documents to an FBI undercover agent posing as an intelligence officer of a foreign country, according to a search warrant affidavit.
In meetings at two hotels near Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Brian Minkyu Martin, 22, accepted $3500 in return for the documents, according to an investigative summary prepared by federal agents. Martin, pictured below, named the classified systems to which he had access and “stated he was seeking long-term financial reimbursement.” He also noted that “over his prospective fifteen (15) to twenty (20) year career, he could be very valuable.”
The summary does not disclose how the probe of Martin began, nor does it detail the substance of the 53 documents he sold to the undercover operative. While he was taken into military custody last week, Martin has yet to be charged in connection with the transactions.
Martin told the undercover agent that he was assigned to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) at Fort Bragg, where “his current assignment focuses on Afghanistan.” The intelligence specialist noted that “he will work for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in the future.”
According to investigators, Martin accepted payments during three separate mid-November meetings in rooms at a Holiday Inn Express and Hampton Inn. During two of the meetings, Martin was “wearing his United States Navy uniform,” and signed a receipt for the funds he received (he allegedly used a code name that he “chose for himself during the meeting”). During his first meeting with the purported foreign agent, Martin was provided with a cell phone “for future contact.”
After completing basic training, Martin reported to the Navy and Marine Corps Intelligence Training Center in July 2007. Over the following years, he held intelligence posts at Griffiss Air Force Base in upstate New York and DIA headquarters in Washington, D.C.. He arrived at JSOC in mid-September.
During his first meeting with the undercover agent, Martin reported having access to network systems classified secret and top secret. (4 pages)
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