US Army MP Arrested on Suspicion of Espionage

Specialist William Colton Millay was taken into custody at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on October 28 following a joint espionage investigation conducted by the FBI and Army Counterintelligence special agents, Army spokesman Lt. Col. Bill Coppernoll said. Coppernoll did not say who Millay, of Owensboro, Kentucky, was suspected of spying for or what sensitive information he may have had access to. He said the investigation was ongoing.

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reply to post by AtticusRye


Do they know who, he was spying for?

Seems to me he is a double agent. Is it not alarming the increases in leaks with regards to the US Military nowadays?

I think the Military need to tighten its gripe on it vetting process on who they let into the military nowadays.

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Originally posted by Laurauk
Seems to me he is a double agent. Is it not alarming the increases in leaks with regards to the US Military nowadays?

If he was a double agent, why would they arrest him? It's good bona fides for whatever he's already passed, but still, it kind of ends the opportunity for him to pass anything else, and the damage to his reputation is immense. If he is a double, he's quite serious about it.

I think the Military need to tighten its gripe on it vetting process on who they let into the military nowadays.

Even an SSBI with polygraph won't catch everybody.

reply to post by FurvusRexCaeli


Well with him being arrested, he could play both sides against each other. As in given the US Authorities information on who he was working for etc.

Or I suppose they could obtain the information out of him by torturing him. They are quite skilled in doing that sort of this are they not!

Thanks for removing Wildmanimal's off-topic posts, mods. It was getting a little weird in here.

Originally posted by Laurauk
reply to post by FurvusRexCaeli

 

Well with him being arrested, he could play both sides against each other. As in given the US Authorities information on who he was working for etc.

They arrested him and made it public, they're not trying to double him. They're prosecuting him. And it's very unlikely they would arrest a dangle. It would be good bona fides for whatever he's already passed, but it obviously would put an end to his usefulness, and there are more elegant ways to do that. A foreign intelligence agent giving information to US authorities is not a double agent, he's just a foreign intelligence agent who got caught.