A former U.S. Army Special Forces officer was arrested and charged with providing U.S. national defense information to Russia, the Department of Justice announced on Friday.
Peter Rafael Dzibinski Debbins, 45, a former Army Green Beret from Gainesville, Virginia, was arrested on Friday. He is accused of conspiring with agents of a Russian intelligence service for more than 10 years, specifically from December 1996 to January 2011, according to an indictment (pdf) made public after his arrest.
