US State Department employee Ashley Tellis, who was arrested for illegally keeping more than 1,000 pages of classified documents at his Northern Virginia home, appeared before a court on Tuesday, October 21, for a detention hearing.

Assistant Director Roman Rozhavsky of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division said, “The FBI arrested Ashley Tellis , a senior advisor at the Department of State and a contractor within the Department of Defence, for allegedly removing over a thousand pages of classified national defence information from government facilities and storing them in his home."

Meanwhile, Assistant Director in Charge Darren B. Cox of the FBI Washington Field Office said Tellis betrayed the trust "by allegedly removing classified documents from government facilities and storing th

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