A prominent US analyst of Indian origin and longtime adviser on South Asia policy has been arrested for allegedly hoarding classified documents and meeting Chinese government officials, according to court filings unsealed this week.
The Justice Department said Ashley Tellis, 64, unlawfully retained national defense information, including more than a thousand pages of top secret and secret documents found at his home in Vienna, Virginia.
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Tellis, a respected voice on US-India relations who has served under multiple administrations, was arrested over the weekend and formally charged on
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