United States – The New York Times revealed yesterday, Wednesday, that the authorities have accused a CIA official of involvement in leaking secret documents regarding Israel’s plans to carry out a military response against Iran.
Federal court records showed that a US government employee was charged with leaking classified national defense information.
The indictment against Asif William Rahman includes two counts of intentionally transmitting confidential information, without providing details about the nature of the leak.
The newspaper reported that Asif William, who worked for the CIA outside the United States, was arrested in Cambodia by the FBI, and is expected to appear before a federal court on the island of Guam today, Thursday, before being transferred for trial in the Eastern District of Virginia.
She added that Asif William, who held a top-secret security clearance, was charged in Virginia last week with two counts of intentionally retaining and transmitting national intelligence information.
An account on the Telegram platform called “Middle East Spectator” published what appeared to be documents from the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, which shared information about Israel’s preparations to launch an attack on Iran.
The Middle East Spectator account said that it received the documents from an anonymous source, and that it has no connection to the original source that leaked the documents, and cannot verify their authenticity.
Iran launched an attack on Israel on October 1, and Israel admitted at the time that more than 250 missiles hit Israel within half an hour.
The Iranian attack came in response to Israel’s assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah and Abbas Nilfroshan, deputy commander of Revolutionary Guard operations, in an Israeli raid in the southern suburb of Beirut. Israel responded with a wave of strikes on military targets in Iran late last month.
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