Stephen Jin-Woo Kim

Ex-Federal Contractor Indicted For Leaks To Fox News

Ryan J. Reilly | August 30, 2010, 2:45PM

A typical U.S. classified document. Credit: Wikimedia

A former contractor for the State Department has been indicted on charges he leaked national defense information to a national news organization, according to an indictment unsealed late Friday.

Stephen Jin-Woo Kim -- a former senior adviser for intelligence who was on a detail to the arms control compliance bureau in the State Department -- allegedly gave national defense information to a reporter. The news organization is believed to be Fox News, and the information was about North Korea, according to news reports.

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