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Richard Luscombe and agency

Pentagon contractor indicted over alleged leak tied to raided Washington Post reporter

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The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on 27 January. Photograph: Jen Golbeck/Sopa Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

A federal grand jury in Maryland has indicted a Pentagon contractor whose alleged leaking of classified documents sparked an “outrageous” FBI raid on a Washington Post reporter’s home.

According to the justice department, Aurelio Luis Perez-Lugones illegally provided sensitive and secret information “related to national defense” to a reporter who it says then wrote and published at least five articles using it.

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