Alaska soldier caught before causing damage, army says

Alaska soldier caught before causing damage, army says

By Yereth Rosen
ANCHORAGE, Alaska | Wed Nov 2, 2011 5:45pm EDT
(Reuters) - A U.S. soldier at an Alaska military base arrested on suspicion of espionage was caught before he could spread information that would damage national interests, an Army spokesman said on Wednesday.

Specialist William Colton Millay, a 22-year-old military policeman from Owensboro, Kentucky, was being watched closely prior to his arrest last Friday, Army spokesman Lt. Col. Bill Coppernoll said.

"Any information that might have been transferred was stopped," thanks to coordination between Army and civilian law enforcement agencies, Coppernoll said. "Millay was being observed well before any damage could have occurred."

Coppernoll did not say who Millay was suspected of spying for or what sensitive information he may have had access to, but said the arrest was unrelated to the WikiLeaks case, in which Army Private Bradley Manning is charged with downloading classified information and passing some of it to WikiLeaks.
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