US-India Defense Expert Ashley Tellis Arrested Over Classified Documents and Chinese Meetings
A Pentagon contractor and State Department adviser, Ashley Tellis, has been charged with unlawfully retaining over a thousand classified documents and allegedly meeting with Chinese officials, raising concerns about national security and espionage. Tellis, a US citizen born in India and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, made his initial court appearance amid ongoing investigations into potential intelligence breaches.