The FBI arrested a former CIA contractor, Ian Brinksman, 42, for allegedly leaking classified information through his Substack blog. An FBI affidavit alleges he published classified information, claiming the “public deserves to know about” it.
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The FBI on Friday arrested Ian Brinksman, a CIA contractor, on charges of unlawfully transmitting national defense information. Brinksman, 42, was taken into custody following a search of his Washington D.C. residence.
According to the Justice Department, Brinksman began working in 2020 as an employee of a U.S. government agency based in the Eastern District of Virginia. In September 2022, he became a systems integration developer for a private contractor, identified in court filings as “Company 1,” that supported the same agency.
Throughout this period he held a Top Secret security clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI). CIA Director John Ratcliffe stated that Brinksman “provided services to CIA” and that the investigation followed a referral from the agency.