NSA contractor pleads guilty to retaining top secret data
A US government contractor accused of stealing vast quantities of highly classified information over more than two decades has pleaded guilty, the Department of Justice said.
Under the terms of an agreement with prosecutors, Harold Martin, 54, agreed to plead guilty to the willful retention of national defense information but not espionage, a statement said Thursday.
He will likely be sentenced to nine years in prison at a hearing on July 19.
Martin was arrested in August 2016 after having worked for 23 years as a contractor for numerous federal agencies including the NSA, which specializes in the interception of global communications.
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