A 22-year-old soldier stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas, was arrested Wednesday on espionage charges.

Taylor Adam Lee was arrested in El Paso, Texas, on criminal charges of attempted transmission of national defense information to a foreign adversary and attempted export of controlled technical data without a license.

Lee holds a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance, according to a justice department release . From May to the time of his arrest, Lee sought to establish his U.S. Army credentials and send defense information to Russia’s Ministry of Defense.

In June, Lee allegedly transmitted export-controlled technical data on the M1A2 Abrams tank online and offered assistance to the Russian Federation, stating, “the USA is not happy with me for trying to expos

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