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a senior advisor in state Department and experts Indian And the charge of South Affairs Justice Department Printing classified documents and storing over 1,000 pages of highly sensitive government records in the home’s cabinets and bins.
Ashley Tellis, who also worked as a contractor in the Defense Department’s Office of Net Assessment, was charged in federal court Virginia He was found to have illegally possessed national defense information after FBI agents searched his home over the weekend and found what they said was a trove of records marked as classified at the Secret and Top Secret levels.
He was ordered detained Tuesday pending a detention hearing next week. One of his lawyers, Deborah Curtis, told The Associated Press that “we are looking forward to the hearing, where we will be able to present evidence” but declined to comment further.
The FBI affidavit cites several instances over the past month in which Tellis is accused of printing, or asking an associate to print, classified documents on government computers on topics including U.S. military aircraft capabilities. Surveillance video shows him leaving the State Department on several occasions Department of Defense According to court documents, he had a briefcase in which he was believed to have hidden printed papers.
Tellis also met with Chinese government officials several times in recent years, according to the affidavit. The FBI says Tellis arrived at the 2022 dinner with a manila folder, while the Chinese officials he met with came in with a gift bag. The affidavit does not accuse him of providing any classified information during those meetings.
Tellis is a foreign policy major with expertise in Indian and South Asian affairs. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace lists him as a Senior Fellow and the Tata Chair of Strategic Affairs. He defeated Republican President George W. Also served on the White House National Security Council staff under Bush.