A U.S. Army soldier and intelligence analyst who was stationed at Fort Campbell pleaded guilty to all charges against him for using his Top Secret security clearance to sell military documents to China.
In March, a 25-page indictment returned by a federal grand jury charged Korbein Schultz with conspiring with an individual from Hong Kong to disclose 12 separate items containing top-secret U.S. military information in exchange for approximately $42,000, as previously reported by The Tennessee Star.
Among the documents and information Schultz (pictured above) sold to the individual from Hong Kong – referred to as Conspirator A – related to the U.S. military’s weapons systems, some of which were classified, and information related to the United States’ potential plans if Taiwan were to come under military attack.
“Before he was arrested, Schultz sent Conspirator A dozens of sensitive and restricted (but unclassified) U.S. military documents regarding a variety of U.S. military weapons systems and U.S. military tactics and strategy, including documents containing export-controlled technical data,” the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs explained in a press release.
A sentencing hearing will be held on January 23, 2025, for Schultz, who faces a maximum sentence of 65 years in prison for the charges of conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information, exporting technical data related to defense articles without a license, conspiracy to export defense articles without a license, and bribery of a public official.
U.S. Attorney Henry C. Leventis for the Middle District of Tennessee said Schultz’s conspiracy to “corrupt other members of our military” and “compromise our national security” was a violation of his “training and his oath as a member of the armed services.”
“Today’s guilty plea to all of the charges in the indictment ensures that he will be held fully accountable for his crimes,” Leventis added.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
