2) E -mail address fail: The FBI quickly gained access to the “anonymous” e -mail account that was used to send the message. They discovered that on the day this account was set, received a message from a second e -mail account – possibly as a test – that turned out to be one of Laatsch's and contained his name as part of the e -mail address.
3) E -Mail account failed: This second e -mail account, when the FBI investigated it, was set using the full name, date of birth and the telephone number.
4) IP -address failed: Both the first and the second e -mail account were logged in from the same IP address, which suggests that they were controlled by the same person. And the IP address used for them decided both … Late's home.
De Leaker suggested moving the conversation to a coded message platform, but the damage was already done.
The FBI immediately started an angel operation, which occurred as the 'friendly country', in which Litsch was asked to copy some juicy data and to provide it in a “dead drop” in a park in North Virginia. Late reportedly went to DIA, with the help of its deep knowledge of automated slide follow -up systems to prevent detection by … Copying secret documents in notebooks by hand, then removing the sheets of paper and filling it in its socks.
This seems to have worked well enough that internal slide “video monitoring” saw him do it, in which FBI agents noticed that even the ways in which Lastsch tried to hide his notebook “when colleagues passed by. Whether late was aware of this video monitoring system is unclear.
On May 1, 2025, Laatsch reportedly wrote his notes, stored on a thumb drive and dropped them as asked in a park Alexandria. The ride was later picked up by the FBI. On May 8, Lastsch told his contact that he was not looking for money, but “citizenship for your country” because he did not “expect things to improve here in the long term, even in the event that there is a change in the future.”
Late was arrested yesterday May 29.
