For years, the FBI kept quiet watch over Ashley Tellis, the influential India-born foreign policy scholar once celebrated as a bridge-builder between Washington and New Delhi. Behind his polished lectures and policy essays, investigators suspected something darker: that he may have been surreptitiously walking classified secrets out of government buildings before rendezvousing with Chinese officials.

This week, Tellis was arrested from his Virginia home and charged with illegally retaining top secret information. An affidavit filed by the FBI has accused Tellis of printing top secret documents at US government buildings he had access to as part of roles he held with the US government and taking them away. The FBI said that a search of his home revealed over a thousand pages of documents

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