An electrical engineer contractor with the Air Force has been accused of printing over 150 pages of “top secret” government documents and attempting to flee to Mexico.
Gokhan Gun was arrested on Friday as he attempted to get on a flight to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, after printing over 150 pages of top-secret Pentagon documents.
On Friday morning, the FBI executed a search warrant of Gun’s home and discovered a backpack full of government documents and stacks of sensitive government documents in his dining room.
Gun claims he was heading to Mexico for a fishing trip, but investigators claim Gun’s alibi is non-sensical considering highly classified U.S. Government documents are not something one would take on a fishing trip.
5 year maximum is not enough time for this type of crime. How any government employee or contractor is allowed to photo copy documents and leave with them is beyond comprehension in this day and age. https://t.co/HiXCW66x6J
— Be Strategic! (@bestrategic2) August 14, 2024
AGAIN? Turkey-born electrical engineer Gokhan Gun printed over 250 documents at work, a few of which were TS. Because of his employment with the DOD, Gun possesses a top-secret clearance, but he was not authorized to take the documents home.https://t.co/Gj0ITZhb8r
— Nicki Kenyon (@IreneKenyon4) August 12, 2024
Here’s what Fox News reported:
An electrical engineer working with the Air Force is accused of printing over 150 pages of “top secret” government documents before attempting to flee the country for Mexico, according to prosecutors.
ADVERTISEMENTGokhan Gun, 50, was arrested Friday as he was departing for a flight to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Gun, a northern Virginia resident who was born in Turkey and holds dual citizenship, was charged with unauthorized removal and retention of classified material, according to Fox 5 DC.
On Friday morning, Gun was leaving for the airport when FBI agents executed a search warrant on him and two of his homes. Agents discovered documents marked as “TOP SECRET” inside a backpack in front of his home. They also found stacks of documents in the dining room of his home with visible classification markings, including some marked as Top Secret and SCI, or Sensitive Compartmented Information.
It is unclear what the contents of the documents were.
Gun told the agents that he was headed to Mexico for what he later claimed was a “fishing trip,” a story investigators called “nonsensical” in court documents. The investigators said “it is unclear how highly classified U.S. Government information would help him in this endeavor.”
In otherwords, the FBI did a piss poor job of vetting this guy in the first place.
Defense Department contractor charged after printing top secret documents, trying to leave with them to Mexicohttps://t.co/1Sc52NM5eq
— Matt Moffett (@Mattmo7988) August 14, 2024
Per The New York Times:
A Defense Department contractor was arrested on Friday with dozens of highly classified documents he had obtained using his security clearance, as he prepared to depart for a trip to Mexico, according to prosecutors.
The contractor, Gokhan Gun, an electrical engineer born in Turkey who now lives in a Virginia suburb of Washington, printed thousands of documents at his work for the Air Force. Many were unclassified, but some were “batches of documents from the top secret network,” according to an 11-page complaint unsealed in a Virginia federal court.
Mr. Gun is charged with illegally obtaining and retaining national defense secrets.
The case is one of several instances in recent years in which soldiers and civilians working for the military improperly retained military secrets. In March, a young Massachusetts Air National Guardsman, Jack Teixeira, accused of posting secret intelligence reports online, pleaded guilty in exchange for a 16-year sentence and an agreement to document his activities to the authorities.
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A Defense Department contractor was arrested on Friday with dozens of highly classified documents he had obtained using his security clearance, as he prepared to depart for a trip to Mexico, according to prosecutors.
The contractor, Gokhan Gun, an electrical engineer… pic.twitter.com/MLYEpgRXki
— ❀ N ✿ (@8zal) August 10, 2024
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