![]() government efforts related to counterterrorism, counterintelligence and defending against cyber threats. The national defense information that Kingsbury unlawfully retained included numerous documents classified at the SECRET level from the FBI that describe intelligence sources and methods related to U.S. ![]() The documents retained by Kingsbury in her personal residence included documents in electronic format on hard drives, compact discs and other storage media. Kingsbury admitted to investigators that she retained and destroyed other documents over the years that could have contained classified and/or national defense information. According to court documents, Kingsbury put national security at risk by retaining classified information in her home that would have, if in the wrong hands, revealed some of the government’s most important and secretive methods of collecting essential national security intelligence. Some of the classified documents she unlawfully removed and kept in her home contained extremely sensitive national defense information. In total, Kingsbury improperly removed and unlawfully and willfully retained approximately 386 classified documents in her personal residence. ![]() Kingsbury admitted that, over the course of her FBI employment, she repeatedly removed from the FBI and retained in her personal residence (at that time in North Kansas City, Missouri) an abundance of sensitive government materials, including classified documents related to the national defense. Such information could only be stored in an approved facility and container. Training presentations and materials specifically warned Kingsbury that she was prohibited from retaining classified information at her personal residence. Kingsbury held a TOP SECRET/SCI security clearance and had access to national defense and classified information. Kingsbury was assigned to a sequence of different FBI squads, each of which had a particular focus, such as illegal drug trafficking, violent crime, violent gangs and counterintelligence. 13, 2022, to two counts of unlawfully retaining documents related to the national defense.Īccording to court documents, Kingsbury was an intelligence analyst for the FBI for more than 12 years, from 2004 to Dec. Bough to 46 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release. ![]() Kendra Kingsbury, 50, of Garden City, Kansas, was sentenced by U.S. A former analyst with the Kansas City Division of the FBI was sentenced in federal court today for illegally retaining documents related to the national defense at her residence. ![]()
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