An Indian -born policy adviser and respected Asia expert was arrested over the weekend for unlawfully possessing more than a thousand pages of classified information marked as “top secret” and “secret ,” according to federal prosecutors.

Ashley J. Tellis, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an unpaid adviser at the State Department , was charged with unlawfully retaining national defense information and meeting with officials from the People’s Republic of China on multiple occasions. The Justice Department announced Tellis’s arrest on Tuesday, describing the allegations as a serious breach of national security.

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