Federal authorities have arrested an American soldier who allegedly tried to share classified information about the Army's M1A2 Abrams tank with Russia, the Justice Department said.

Taylor Adam Lee — a 22-year-old active-duty Army member stationed at Fort Bliss in Texas — was arrested Wednesday and charged under the Espionage Act with attempted transmission of national defense information to a foreign adversary, federal prosecutors said in a statement . He was also charged under the Arms Export Control Act.

The Justice Department claimed Lee "transmitted export-controlled technical information on the M1A2 Abrams Tank online and offered assistance to the Russian Federation." Prosecutors accused Lee of trying to swap the information for Russian citizenship.

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