Attempted espionage court martial set for May
NORFOLK —
A court-martial for a 22-year-old Navy sailor charged with attempted espionage while he was stationed at Fort Bragg has been set for May 19.
Navy Reserve Intelligence Specialist Petty Officer 2nd Class Bryan Minkyu Martin of Mexico, N.Y., is accused of attempting to sell classified documents to an undercover FBI agent in November shortly before he was set to deploy to Afghanistan in support of the Army.
Martin enlisted in the Navy in 2006 and received a top secret-level security clearance the following year.
He has been charged with four counts of attempted espionage and 11 counts of mishandling classified information. Martin’s attorneys did not enter a plea at an arraignment hearing Thursday at Naval Station Norfolk, where he is being held in the brig. They also did not immediately decide whether to have Martin’s case decided by a judge or jury.
According to a warrant, Martin accepted a total of $3,500 from an undercover agent in exchange for dozens of pages of documents that were classified as either secret or top secret.