Henry Kyle Frese (born October 27, 1988) was an employee at the Defense Intelligence Agency, as well as a senior consultant at BAE Systems in Reston, Virginia.On October 9, 2019, Frese was charged with two violations of the Espionage Act under 18 USC 793(d) by a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia for willful transmission of National Defense Information.The Justice Department alleges that Frese disclosed the top secret information to newspaper reporters, one of which Justice alleged was a reporter with whom Frese may have been involved in a "romantic relationship."