FBI Arrests Anti-Trump Intelligence Employee For Trying to LEAK Secrets to Foreign Government

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The FBI has just taken out a traitor from within our nation’s own intelligence community.

A Defense Intelligence IT specialist was arrested on Thursday after trying to give classified information to an unnamed foreign government.

FBI Director Kash Patel announced the huge arrest:

The identity of the IT specialist was revealed as 28-year-old Nathan Vilas Laastch, who was fervently anti-Trump.

Documents show that he didn’t agree with the Trump administration, so he decided to betray his country.

Nick Sortor shared a photo of Laastch and his career history:

Am I the only one wondering how someone goes from spending a decade as a grocery store cashier to suddenly becoming an intelligence employee with access to our nation’s top secrets?

Something seems off here.

Politico has more information on Nathan’s position with the DIA and arrest:

Laatsch worked in the DIA’s Insider Threat Division, a unit devoted to detecting employees who might be disclosing or prone to disclose sensitive information.

He was arrested Thursday by the FBI in northern Virginia after the undercover agent received material from him at a pre-arranged location, according to the DOJ. The DIA employee allegedly told authorities he was requesting citizenship in the foreign country because of conditions in the U.S.

“I’ve given a lot of thought to this before any outreach, and despite the risks, the calculus has not changed,” the documents quoted him as writing. “I do not see the trajectory of things changing, and do not think it is appropriate or right to do nothing when I am in this position.”

The FBI Washington Field Office is investigating the case, and Laatsch is scheduled to make an initial court appearance in Alexandria, Virginia on Friday.

Nathan became a person of interest to the FBI after they received a tip that he was trying to leak classified secrets to a “friendly foreign government.”

The FBI staged an investigation that eventually led to his arrest.

A Justice Department press release detailed that operation:

According to court documents, Laatsch became a civilian employee of the DIA in 2019, where he works with the Insider Threat Division and holds a Top Secret security clearance. In March 2025, the FBI commenced an operation after receiving a tip that an individual — now known to be Laatsch — offered to provide classified information to a friendly foreign government. In that email, the sender wrote that he did not “agree or align with the values of this administration” and was therefore “willing to share classified information” that he had access to, including “completed intelligence products, some unprocessed intelligence, and other assorted classified documentation.”

After multiple communications with an FBI agent — who Laatsch allegedly believed to be an official of the foreign government — Laatsch began transcribing classified information to a notepad at his desk and, over the course of approximately three days, repeatedly exfiltrated the information from his workspace. Laatsch subsequently confirmed to the FBI agent that he was prepared to transmit the information.

Thereafter, the FBI implemented an operation at a public park in northern Virginia, where Laatsch believed he would deposit the classified information for the foreign government to retrieve. On or about May 1, 2025, FBI surveillance observed Laatsch proceed to the specified location and deposit an item. Following Laatsch’s departure, the FBI retrieved the item, which was a thumb drive later found to contain a message from Laatsch and multiple typed documents, each containing information that was portion-marked up to the Secret or Top Secret levels. The message from Laatsch indicated that he had chosen to include “a decent sample size” of classified information to “decently demonstrate the range of types of products” to which he had access.

After receiving confirmation that the thumb drive had been received, on May 7, Laatsch allegedly sent a message to the FBI agent, which indicated Laatsch was seeking something from the foreign government in return for continuing to provide classified information. The next day, Laatsch specified that he was interested in “citizenship for your country” because he did not “expect[] things here to improve in the long term.” Although he said he was “not opposed to other compensation,” he was not in a position where he needed to seek “material compensation.”

No details have been provided about which “friendly foreign government” Nathan was trying to hand our nation’s secrets over to.

Some folks on social media have their suspicions:

Regardless of which nation it was, what Nathan did here is a textbook example of treason.

He — and all other traitors in the Deep State — should be charged and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law…and, you know what that is.

Do you agree?



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