Indian-American scholar and policy adviser Ashley Tellis has been granted pre-trial release in a high-profile espionage case, after his attorneys promised full cooperation and invoked his "lifelong commitment to American national security".

Tellis, 64, a senior adviser at the US State Department and a contractor with the Department of Defence, was arrested earlier this month for allegedly hoarding classified defence documents at his Virginia home. Prosecutors accused him of unlawfully retaining over a thousand pages of top-secret material, including files tied to US military capabilities.

However, his defence team called the case against him "an overreach against a patriot," portraying Tellis as a career public servant caught in the crosshairs of Washington’s tightening counterintelli

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