DENVER (AP) — A former National Security Agency employee from Colorado pleaded guilty Monday to trying to sell classified information to Russia. Dalke, a 31-year-old Army veteran from Colorado Springs, had faced a possible life sentence for giving the information to an undercover FBI agent who prosecutors say Dalke believed was a Russian agent. Political Cartoons View All 1215 ImagesAccording to the indictment, the information Dalke sought to give Russia included a threat assessment of the military offensive capabilities of a third, unnamed country. After he left and gave the classified information to the undercover agent, prosecutors say he reapplied to work at the NSA. During a hearing last year, Dalke's federal public defender downplayed Dalke’s access to classified information since he only worked at the NSA for less than a month.

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Persons: —, Jareh Sebastian Dalke, Dalke, Raymond Moore, Moore Organizations: DENVER, National Security Agency, Army, U.S, District, NSA Locations: Colorado, Russia, Colorado Springs, Russian, Denver’s, U.S