A senior adviser in the State Department has been accused by the Department of Justice of removing classified documents from secure government sites and meeting with Chinese officials.
Ashley Tellis, 64, a native of Mumbai, India, and resident of Vienna, Virginia, was charged over the weekend with unlawfully retaining classified national defense documents and meeting with Chinese government officials on multiple occasions, according to court documents obtained by the Hindustan Times.
Tellis held a top-secret security clearance with access to sensitive compartmented information.
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