Former NSA Worker Gets Nearly 22 Years in Prison for Selling Secrets to Undercover FBI Agent

Former NSA Worker Gets Nearly 22 Years in Prison for Selling Secrets to Undercover FBI Agent
U.S. Attorney for Colorado Cole Finegan (L), speaks outside Denver federal court after the sentencing of Jared Sebastian Dalke in Denver on April 29, 2024. Colleen Slevin/AP Photo
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DENVER—A former National Security Agency employee who sold classified information to an undercover FBI agent he believed to be a Russian official was sentenced Monday to nearly 22 years in prison, the penalty requested by government prosecutors.

U.S. District Judge Raymond Moore said he could have put Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 32, behind bars for even longer, calling the 262-month sentence “mercy” for what he saw as a calculated action to take the job at the NSA in order to be able to sell national security secrets.