Pentagon Employee Charged With Providing Valuable Secrets To Individual Tied To Hezbollah

Information shared by linguist included real names of individuals spying for the U.S., Justice Department says. Pentagon Employee Charged With Providing Valuable Secrets To Individual Tied To Hezbollah

The Justice Department on Wednesday charged a Defense Department linguist with sharing classified information with an individual connected to the Hezbollah terrorist group, including the real names of individuals who were spying for the U.S.

In what would be a major security breach, officials said the linguist, Mariam Taha Thompson, 61, who works under contract for the Defense Department, transmitted the highly classified data while serving at a Special Operations Task Force site in Erbil, Iraq.

She was arrested on Feb. 27 and is due to make an initial court appearance later on Wednesday. She faces espionage charges. Ms. Thompson couldn’t be reached for comment through the Pentagon and court documents didn’t identify an attorney for her.

“While in a war zone, the defendant allegedly gave sensitive national defense information, including the names of individuals helping the United States, to a Lebanese national located overseas,” Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers said in a statement.

In an affidavit filed in the case, an FBI special agent said that beginning around Dec. 30, 2019—the same day protesters stormed the U.S. Embassy in Iraq to protest U.S. airstrikes—computer audit logs showed that Ms. Thompson accessed 57 files concerning eight U.S. human intelligence sources.

“These files contained classified national defense information including true names, personal identification data, background information, and photographs of the human sources, as well as operations cables detailing information the human sources provided to the United States government,” the affidavit said. Pentagon Employee Charged With,Pentagon Employee Charged With,Pentagon Employee Charged With,Pentagon Employee Charged With,

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