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Joseph Daniel Schmidt, 29, at San Francisco International Airport as he arrived from Hong Kong, where he had been living since March 2020, the Justice Department said. A federal grand jury in Seattle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/former-soldier-indicted-attempting-pass-national-defense-information-peoples-republic-china\" target=\"_blank\">returned an indictment Wednesday<\/a> charging him with retention and attempted delivery of national defense information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A public defender assigned to represented Schmidt at a brief appearance at U.S. District Court in San Francisco on Friday pending his transfer to Washington state did not immediately return an email seeking comment. U.S. District Court records in Seattle did not list an attorney representing Schmidt on the charges, and neither the U.S. attorney\u2019s office nor the federal public defender\u2019s office had information about whether he had a lawyer, representatives said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An FBI declaration filed in the case quoted Schmidt as telling his sister in an email that he left the U.S. because he disagreed with unspecified aspects of American policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t talk about it often, but I learned some really terrible things about the American government while I was working in the Army, and I no longer feel safe living in America or like I want to support the American government,\u201d he was quoted as writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schmidt spent five years in active duty in the Army, where he was primarily assigned to the 109th Military Intelligence Battalion at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, according to a declaration filed in U.S. District Court by FBI Special Agent Brandon Tower. 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Two days later, he drafted a Word document titled \u201cImportant Information to Share with Chinese Government\u201d that included classified information related to national defense; investigators recovered it from his Apple iCloud account, the declaration said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After returning to the U.S. from Turkey in March 2020, he left a few days later for Hong Kong, where he had been living ever since, the declaration said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the next few months, Tower wrote, Schmidt emailed two state-owned enterprises in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/china\/\" target=\"_blank\">China<\/a>, including a subsidiary of the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation Limited that has produced intelligence-gathering software tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He offered to provide an encryption key he had retained for accessing the Army\u2019s classified information network and 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