Donald Sachtleben, 55, is to be sentenced to 12 years in prison.
The May 2012 disclosures jeopardized an international intelligence operation and put lives at risk, officials said.
Investigators identified him after seizing phone records of the Associated Press, which published an article on the Yemen-based al-Qaeda plot
On 2 May 2012, he disclosed secret information to a reporter, according to a court document he signed.
Nine days later he was arrested on separate charges of trading images of child pornography online, having been identified during an investigation into another man accused of possession of child pornography.
An FBI search of Sachtleben's computer, seized in the child pornography investigation, revealed improperly stored secret documents, according to court records.
On Monday, Sachtleben pleaded guilty to unauthorised disclosure of national defence information, unauthorised possession and retention of national defence information, and two charges of distributing and possessing child pornography.
The plea agreement calls for him to be sentenced to a total of 140 months in prison - 43 for the national security offenses and 97 for the child pornography charges.
Read the full BBC article at Ex FBI Agent in Ripped from the Headlines
The May 2012 disclosures jeopardized an international intelligence operation and put lives at risk, officials said.
Investigators identified him after seizing phone records of the Associated Press, which published an article on the Yemen-based al-Qaeda plot
On 2 May 2012, he disclosed secret information to a reporter, according to a court document he signed.
Nine days later he was arrested on separate charges of trading images of child pornography online, having been identified during an investigation into another man accused of possession of child pornography.
An FBI search of Sachtleben's computer, seized in the child pornography investigation, revealed improperly stored secret documents, according to court records.
On Monday, Sachtleben pleaded guilty to unauthorised disclosure of national defence information, unauthorised possession and retention of national defence information, and two charges of distributing and possessing child pornography.
The plea agreement calls for him to be sentenced to a total of 140 months in prison - 43 for the national security offenses and 97 for the child pornography charges.
Read the full BBC article at Ex FBI Agent in Ripped from the Headlines
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