The U.S. has charged a person who labored for the CIA abroad with leaking a categorised doc final month that assessed Israeli preparations for a counterattack on Iran.
The person, Asif William Rahman, was indicted within the U.S. District Court docket in Jap Virginia by the Division of Justice on Nov. 7, with two counts of the willful retention and transmission of nationwide protection data.
The case was filed on Wednesday within the U.S. District Court docket in Guam after Rahman was arrested by the FBI in Cambodia and dropped at the American territory within the Pacific.
Rahman had entry to prime secret data in his function on the CIA. The indictment doesn’t determine his function within the authorities or what paperwork he leaked, however the New York Instances confirmed the main points Wednesday.
The pair of leaked paperwork from the Nationwide Geospatial-Intelligence Company and the Nationwide Safety Company circulated on-line in late October, simply days earlier than Israel struck delicate army and missile manufacturing websites in Iran in retaliation for an Oct. 1 Iranian assault that fired some 180 ballistic missiles at Israel.
The paperwork confirmed the sorts of plane or weapons Israel would possibly use in a doable assault on Iran and revealed the motion of munitions. Additionally they tracked Israeli workout routines in preparation for an assault.
The arrest comes only a day after Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira was sentenced to fifteen years in jail for leaking categorised paperwork in 2023 in regards to the battle in Ukraine and U.S. fascinated with allies and different nations.
