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Would-be spy landed job at Utah agency that oversees state computer systems, says he used it to find and send documents to Russia

A quick web search for “Travis Lee Bailey” leads to Amazon.com, where he is described as a book author who after smuggling “secrets from the United States Strategic Command into Russia ... is currently working toward Russian political asylum.”

He still managed to land a job last month at the Utah Department of Technology Services, and says he used it to find and send more sensitive documents to Russia.

“It’s just a gold mine. The security here is an absolute joke. It’s an absolute horrendous joke,” he told The Salt Lake Tribune.

But signs are that he is not really a spy.