Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Stephen Kellogg III admits he took classified information that he planned to make public and then defect to Russia.
The U.S. aircraft carrier Carl Vinson docks in Vietnam in 2018. A sailor who served on the ship has pleaded guilty to espionage charges.
Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Stephen Kellogg III wished to publish an expose on waste within the military and admitted he wanted to share the information with Russians, Jeff Houston of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service said in an email to the Associated Press.According to Navy court documents, Kellogg, 26, was in contact with Sevmash, Russia’s largest shipbuilding enterprise.
Kellogg knew if the information became public, potential adversaries would probably know the capabilities and limitations of the United States’ nuclear-powered warships, according to his pretrial agreement. “This sailor’s attempts to disclose classified Navy nuclear propulsion information posed a significant threat to national security and endangered the lives of American service members,” FBI Special Agent in Charge Garrett Waugh said in a statement.
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