Alleged Spy Was Also 22-Year-Old Ex-Grocery Store Clerk Hired by Trump
Earlier DU thread: US government employee charged with trying to give classified information to a foreign government
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Source: The Daily Beast
Alleged Spy Was Also 22-Year-Old Ex-Grocery Store Clerk Hired by Trump
Tom Latchem
Fri, June 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM EDT·3 min read
A U.S. intelligence worker charged with trying to leak state secrets to a foreign spy agency was hired as a 22-year-old with little professional experience outside the cash register at a local grocery store, The Daily Beast can reveal.
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A cybersecurity graduate of Florida Polytechnic University, Nathan Vilas Laatsch is the second national security official in two days whom The Daily Beast has revealed to have virtually no professional experience other than working at a grocery store before being hired by a U.S national security agency at the age of 22.
Laatsch, now 28, a computer scientist with “top secret” clearance at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in Virginia, was hired under the last Trump administration. He was arrested last week, accused of attempting to pass sensitive information to Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND).
When Laatsch was hired for the role with a Top Secret security clearance at the age of 22 in August 2019, he had just stopped working as a cashier at Publix supermarket in Plant City, Florida, according to his LinkedIn account.
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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/news/alleged-spy-22-old-ex-165659028.html
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