A U.S. Army soldier from Fort Campbell was indicted on charges of selling national defense secrets to China, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee Henry C. Leventis announced Thursday.
Korbein Schultz was an army intelligence analyst with the First Battalion of the 506th Infantry Regiment at Fort Campbell, Leventis said. He was arrested earlier Thursday.
"He traded our national defense information for cash," Leventis said. He received $42,000, Leventis said.
The indictment charges Schultz with six counts, including conspiracy to unlawfully communicate defense information, unlawful export of defense articles to China and bribery of a public official, Leventis said.
The indictment alleges that starting in June 2022, Schultz collected and shared with a co-conspirator in China information about U.
S. military operations, including advanced fighter aircraft, advanced military helicopters, intercontinental ballistic missiles, high-mobility artillery rocket systems, defensive missile systems and Chinese military tactics, Leventis said.
According to the indictment, Schultz told a conspirator in August 2022 that he "'wished he could be 'Jason Bourne.'" A month later, he stated that he thought about "moving to Hong Kong and working for you in person," according to the indictment.
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