A US Air Force intelligence officer who kidnapped her daughter to Mexico and attempted to defect to Russia with information labelled top secret has been jailed for 11 years.
Elizabeth Jo Shirley, 47, of West Virginia, specialized in cyber operations and worked at a range of intelligence agencies for nearly 20 years. She had stints at the NSA, the Office of Naval Intelligence, the Department of Defense, the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force, and the Department of Energy where she had access to classified information related to nuclear weapons.
This week she was sentenced to 97 months in prison for unlawfully retaining documents containing national defense information, and 36 months for international parental kidnapping, having admitted both charges back in July.
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