Information security

Former intelligence analyst sentenced to 30 months in prison for leaks

Henry Kyle Frese had dreamed of working in the intelligence field his whole life; he gave up his Canadian citizenship and a longtime girlfriend to work in Washington. He was preparing to serve in Iraq last fall. Instead, he was arrested at his desk in the Defense Intelligence Agency and on Thursday was sentenced to 2½ years in prison for leaking classified information.

“It was never for personal gain or out of anger; it was never for political reasons,” Frese said at sentencing in Alexandria federal court Thursday. “At the time, I thought my reasons were important. . . . Looking back, I’m embarrassed at how foolish and weak they were.”

Frese, 32, was a counterterrorism analyst at the DIA from 2017 until last October. He admitted in February to sharing national defense information with a consultant and two reporters, one of whom he was dating.