State Department Employee Allegedly Removed Classified Docs, Met With Chinese Officials

State Department Employee Allegedly Removed Classified Docs, Met With Chinese Officials

State Department employee is accused of removing classified documents from secure locations and meeting with Chinese officials dating back to 2023.

The Justice Department said Ashley Tellis was an unpaid senior adviser to the State Department and also a contractor with the Office of Net Assessment at the Department of Defense, recently renamed the Department of War. He is considered a subject-matter expert on India and South Asian affairs in his role at the Office of Net Assessment.

Ashley Tellis

Ashley Tellis

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He held a top-secret clearance and had access to sensitive information, federal prosecutors said in court documents. He was also employed as a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

During a search of his Vienna, Va., home, authorities found more than a thousand pages of documents marked “TOP SECRET” and “SECRET,” according to court documents.

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