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Ex-FBI Analyst Sentenced to 46 Months for Stealing Classified Documents
A former analyst with the Kansas City Division of the FBI was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for stealing classified documents from their workplace.
Kendra Kingsbury, 50, of Garden City, Kansas, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Bough to 46 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release. Kingsbury pleaded guilty on Oct. 13, 2022, to two counts of unlawfully retaining documents related to the national defense.
According to court documents, Kingsbury was an intelligence analyst for the FBI for more than 12 years, from 2004 to Dec. 15, 2017. 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. Kingsbury held a TOP SECRET/SCI security clearance and had access to national defense and classified information. Training presentations and materials specifically warned Kingsbury that she was prohibited from retaining classified information at her personal residence. Such information could only be stored in an approved facility and container.
Kingsbury admitted that, over the course of her FBI employment, she repeatedly removed from the FBI and retained in her personal residence an abundance of sensitive government materials, including classified documents related to the national defense. In total, Kingsbury improperly removed and unlawfully and willfully retained approximately 386 classified documents in her personal residence. Some of the classified documents she unlawfully removed and kept in her home contained extremely sensitive national defense information.
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. government efforts related to counterterrorism, counterintelligence and defending against cyber threats. These documents included details on the FBI’s nationwide objectives and priorities, including specific investigations across multiple field offices that were open at the time Kingsbury unlawfully retained the documents.
Kingsbury was an intelligence analyst for the FBI for more than 12 years, from 2004 to Dec. 15, 2017, in Kansas City, Kansas. She pleaded guilty on Oct. 13, 2022, to two counts of unlawfully retaining documents related to the national defense. The investigation revealed that 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.
Kingsbury was charged with two counts of unlawfully retaining documents related to the national defense at her residence in Kansas City, Kansas, and Garden City, Kansas. She was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on Jan. 10, 2023. The investigation by the FBI revealed that Kingsbury improperly removed and unlawfully and willfully retained approximately 386 classified documents in her personal residence.
Key Facts
- State: Kansas
- Category: Public Corruption|Violent Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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