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Former CIA Employee Charged In Massive Leak Of Confidential Information

Joshua Schulte allegedly stole material for an unnamed organization — thought to be WikiLeaks — to post online. The group released a trove of documents on the agency's hacking tools last year.

Federal prosecutors have charged a former CIA software engineer with stealing secret material from the agency and passing it along to "an organization that purports to publicly disseminate classified, sensitive, and confidential information."

The announced Monday details charges against Joshua Adam Schulte, 29, pertaining to the theft

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