Classified documents found in Wright-patt worker’s home

FAIRBORN — The FBI is investigating after more than 1,000 pages of highly sensitive, classified documents from a WrightPatterson Air Force Base unit were recovered from a home in the Dayton suburb of Fairborn.

A 33-year-old Air Force contractor for the National Air and Space Intelligence Center at Wright-patterson admitted to printing out and taking home the files marked “top secret,” according to a search warrant affidavit filed in federal court.

No records in state or local courts indicate that Kemp has been charged with a crime.

The Greene County ACE Task Force and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations discovered the documents during a search of Izaak Kemp’s home on May 24.

Kemp, who is listed as a past student at Wright State University, consented to the FBI taking and searching his laptop, cellphone and external hard drive, according to ABC News.

Kemp was initially under investigation by Fairborn police for allegedly growing marijuana at the home; several plants were seized during the search.

The case escalated to the FBI when investigators discovered the documents, which they say were “related to Top Secret Special Access Programs” and were “clearly marked as classified.” Such files are deemed so sensitive that they require additional security beyond the norm for classified files and should be stored only in segregated, highly protected environments, according to Forbes magazine, which first reported the discovery.

The center is a Department of Defense intelligence unit that analyses intelligence on foreign air, cyber and space threats. That includes intelligence on military systems and equipment of other nations. The government did not reveal what was in the files.

Wright-patterson representatives said Kemp was never authorized to take the documents and would have had to bypass security checkpoints to get them out of the office.