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Ex-CIA coder convicted of espionage over theft of leaked WikiLeaks secrets

US Attorney Damian Williams said Joshua Schulte was convicted of “one of the most brazen and damaging acts of espionage in American history” for releasing a trove of CIA secrets to WikiLeaks in 2017. © Toru Hanai, Reuters

A former CIA software engineer was convicted Wednesday of federal charges accusing him of the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history.

Joshua Schulte, who chose to defend himself at a New York City retrial, had told jurors in closing arguments that the CIA and FBI made him a scapegoat for an embarrassing public release of a trove of CIA secrets by WikiLeaks in 2017.

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