US government snitch-finder pleads guilty to leaking state secrets to foreign spies

NATHAN Vilas Laatsch, a former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) IT specialist, has pleaded guilty to attempting to leak secret and top-secret information to foreign spies following an FBI sting operation. Laatsch, who had top-secret clearance since 2019, was arrested in May 2025 after he was caught transmitting intelligence packages in a public park, believing they would be received by a foreign government. The specific identity of this government has not been disclosed, but it has been referred to as 'a friendly foreign government' in court documents.