NSA employee indicted for allegedly transmitting classified information to unauthorized person

NSA employee indicted for allegedly transmitting classified information to unauthorized person

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A National Security Agency employee has been charged with emailing classified information to somebody who wasn’t authorized to receive it, according to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday.

Mark Robert Unkenholz, 60, of Hanover, Maryland, was arrested Thursday and scheduled to make his initial court appearance in Baltimore at 3 p.m.

FILE – This June 6, 2013, file photo shows a sign outside the National Security Administration campus in Fort Meade, Md.
(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Unkenholz held “top secret” security clearance, giving him access to the information, according to a 26-count indictment. He worked for an NSA office responsible for the agency’s engagement with private industry.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.