U.S. Army intelligence analyst pleads guilty to selling military secrets to China, bribery

Sgt. Korbein Schultz, a U.S. Army intelligence analyst, pleaded guilty to all charges he faced, including selling military secrets to China for $42,000, the Justice Department said on Tuesday in a press release.

According to DOJ, he was charged with "conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information, exporting technical data related to defense articles without a license, conspiracy to export defense articles without a license, and bribery of a public official."

Schultz, an army intelligence analyst with the First Battalion of the 506th Infantry Regiment at Fort Campbell, was indicted by a grand jury and arrested in March at the base.

“The defendant abused his access to restricted government systems to sell sensitive military information to a person he knew to be a foreign national,” Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen of DOJ's National Security Division said of Schultz, who held a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearance in the U.S. Army.

“By conspiring to transmit national defense information to a person living outside the United States, this defendant callously put our national security at risk to cash in on the trust our military placed in him.”