February 6, 2001
Web posted at: 11:20 AM EST (1620 GMT)

From CNN Military Affairs Correspondent Jamie McIntyre

WASHINGTON (CNN) - Pentagon sources said Monday a deal is in the works that would end the Navy's espionage case against a former National Security Agency cryptologist, who has been held for the past 15 months at the military brig at Quantico, Virginia. Petty Officer First Class Daniel King was arrested in October 1999 after Navy officials said he failed a routine lie-detector test and confessed to sending a computer disk containing top-secret information to the Russian Embassy in Washington.