april 1st last year, a mailed a brown envelope to a foreign nation. this contained restricted navy documents, an sd card with instructions how to reply and a message saying in part, i apologize for this poor translation. please forward this letter to your military intelligence agency. i believe this will be of great value to your nation. several months later, that package made its way to the fbi in the country and the next week, the fbi began its correspondence with him. they earned his trust by placing a signal at a location associated with the foreign government in washington, d.c. they sent him an initial payment of 10,000 the form of a crypto currency. he asked them for $100,000 in exchange for more documents containing information including printouts, digital media files