U.S. Navy Engineer Charles Naviggs Chief Information Officer Charles T. Briggs is facing a cost battle that includes allegedly sending an e-mail with classified information to a Russian national who could have used it to To destroy states or to benefit a foreign nation, ‘according to Marine time.
Briggs apparently purchased the e-mail when she was stationed at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska with US Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), the combat command that oversees missile defense, nuclear weapons and other surveillance and intelligence. He served on the base from April 2018 to July 2019.
He is believed to have transferred information about US defense to more than one Russian national from October 2018 to January 2019 – the name (as the names of the Russians) were recovered from a sheet of Briggs’ official indictments.
Briggs is facing three additional charges against him for making false official statements and one for obstructing justice.
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On a security delay questionnaire, he allegedly refused to maintain a ‘close and lasting relationship’ with all non-US national citizens. He also stated on a USSTRATCOM form in September 2018 that he had not met any foreign nationals who had requested future contact, despite all connections with Russian and Italian nationals from May 2017 to January 2019.
Prosecutors also allege that Briggs falsely stated in a November 2018 form that he would stay 11 days in Nebraska – instead he allegedly took a month-long trip to Serbia in November and December of that year that he did not disclose to his commanders. .
Finally, Briggs also treats accusers of “possessing a digital image of child sexual abuse” and attempts to view such material from June 2018 to December 2018.
Briggs 1998 and was made chief in 2013. His trial is scheduled for November.
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This is just the latest intrigue between Russians and members of the US military.
One June, The New York Times revealed that Unit 29155, part of the Russian intelligence agency known as the GRU, the Taliban, an Islamic fundamentalist military organization, had all plotted to assassinate American troops in Afghanistan.
Russia has all tried to do this in order to destabilize the military presence of the West in the Middle East and elsewhere.
De The time report sparked outrage in the U.S. over the apparent failure of Republican President Donald Trump, despite him being warned about the operation months before it came to light.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the report “100 percent bullshit,” and Trump denied being informed, although the Associated Press said the White House had known about the bounties since 2019.
Newsweek contacted the U.S. Department of Defense for comment.
