The US Justice Department said that a former US Army major and his anesthesiologist wife have been charged with criminal charges over an alleged conspiracy to leak highly sensitive healthcare data regarding military patients to Russia.
According to the British Guardian newspaper, Jamie Lee Henry, a former major who was also a doctor in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and his wife, Dr. Anna Gabrielian, were charged with conspiracy and unlawful disclosure of health information and false disclosure of health information, in indictment documents. Not announced in federal court in Maryland.
The indictment says the scheme began earlier this year, following the Russian president ordered an invasion of Ukraine.
Prosecutors said the couple wanted to try to help the Russian government by providing it with data to help the Putin regime gain insight into the medical conditions of individuals associated with the US government and military.
According to the report, the couple met with someone they believed to be a Russian official, but who was in fact an undercover FBI agent, according to the indictment.
At a Baltimore hotel last August, Gabrielian told the undercover agent that they were motivated by patriotism toward Russia to offer Russia whatever help they might, even if it meant being fired or imprisoned.
At the meeting, Anna volunteered to bring her husband into the plan, and he said he knew information regarding previous military training the United States had given Ukraine, among other things.
In another meeting, Henry told the agent that he, too, felt an obligation to Russia, and they claimed he might even volunteer to join the Russian army.
He told the undercover American agent: The way I see what is happening in Ukraine now, is that the United States is using the Ukrainians as a proxy for their hatred towards Russia.
The FBI agent urged them to read a book regarding the making of Soviet spies, and told them it would help them understand what they were regarding to do.