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Dr Ashley Tellis, a 64-year-old Indian-American strategist, was arrested by the FBI for allegedly retaining classified U.S. defense and State Department documents.

Investigators reportedly recovered over a thousand pages of top-secret and secret material from his Virginia home.

He serves as a senior fellow and Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C.

Tellis previously worked as Special Assistant to President George W. Bush on the National Security Council and helped design the Indo-U.S. Civil Nuclear Deal between 2005 and 2008. - Advertisement -

He has authored essays critical of Indian foreign policy, including America’s Bad Bet on India (2023) and India’s Great-Power Delusions (2025).

The arrest of Dr As

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