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To prove their bona fides, the individual sent excerpts of three classified documents and one full classified document that were related to three unidentified US government agencies. Dalke was tied to the email account used to communicate with the FBI agent and to send the documents after investigators scouring historical user activity on NSA systems claim they found that his user account had printed all four of the classified documents.

"Dalke was the only NSA employee to have printed all of these documents," according to the affidavit.

After supplying the documents, the FBI says it sent the requested cryptocurrency to an address on August 9. That's when investigators began tracking the money.

That same day, someone opened an account under Dalke's real name on the Kraken crypto exchange and, it is alleged, after receiving the payment from the undercover agent, deposited a similar amount of the same cryptocurrency into Dalke's exchange account.

The agency claims that Dalke – a resident of Colorado Springs – converted the crypto into dollars, and withdrew the dollars ($4,559.81) from the exchange on August 9, and three days later deposited the same amount of money into a bank account in Colorado, according to the FBI affidavit.