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State Department employee allegedly removed classified docs, met with Chinese officials
- On September 25, federal agents arrested Ashley Tellis, 64, an unpaid senior adviser at the U.S. State Department, after seizing more than 1,000 pages marked TOP SECRET from his Vienna, Virginia home.
- Federal prosecutors say Tellis met repeatedly with Chinese government officials at a Fairfax, Virginia restaurant, arriving at dinners with a manila envelope while hosts brought gift bags.
- Printing episodes included a late-night session on September 25 at the State Department where Tellis printed classified U.S. Air Force documents, and surveillance video showed him leaving with a briefcase.
- He was ordered detained Tuesday pending a detention hearing next week and faces charges of unlawful retention of national defense information with penalties up to 10 years and a $250,000 fine.
- The affidavit notes it does not allege he provided classified material during meetings, and the Justice Department continues investigating documents potentially covered under the Espionage Act.
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State Dept Adviser Accused of Removing Classified Docs
A senior adviser in the State Department has been accused by the Department of Justice of removing classified documents from secure government sites and meeting with Chinese officials. Ashley Tellis, 64, a native of Mumbai, India, and resident of Vienna, Virginia, was charged over the weekend with unlawfully retaining classified national defense documents and meeting with Chinese government officials on multiple occasions, according to court doc…
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A State Department employee has been arrested and is accused of removing classified documents from secure government facilities and meeting with Chinese officials, Fox News reports. Ashley Tellis, 64, was an unpaid senior adviser at the State Department, which handles U.S. foreign policy, and also worked as a contractor with the Office of Net Assessment (ONA) at the Department of Defense. Tellis is now accused of unlawfully keeping classified do…
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State Department employee steals thousands of pages of 'Top Secret' documents, meets with Chinese officials * WorldNetDaily * by Cristina Laila, The Gateway Pundit
(U.S. State Department photo by Serkan Gurbuz) A State Department contractor stole thousands of pages of “TOP SECRET” classified documents and met with Beijing officials. Ashley Tellis, an expert on India and South Asian affairs, removed the top secret documents from secure locations and met with Chinese officials. The classified documents were located in Tellis’s Virginia home during a raid. “On Sept. 25, he allegedly printed U.S. Air Force doc…
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