Ashley Tellis in Mumbai, India, on March 15, 2014. Abhijit Bhatlekar/Mint/Getty Images

A man who worked as a Pentagon contractor and State Department adviser has been charged with removing classified information from a government facility after investigators found over a thousand documents with classified markings at his house in Virginia.

Some of the documents that Ashley Tellis, an expert in South Asian affairs, allegedly accessed and removed refer to Air Force tactics and techniques, according to court records.

Tellis allegedly met numerous times with Chinese government officials over the last several years, says an FBI affidavit made public on Tuesday. In April 2023, Tellis had dinner with Chinese government officials in a Washington, DC, suburb and “could be occasionally overhe

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