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Mariam thompson linguist4/6/2023 “It’s astounding that an American working for the U.S. targets and multiple tactics, techniques and procedures by the time of her arrest by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in February 2020, the report says. She had managed to pass dozens of secret files containing the identities of at least 10 clandestine human assets at least 20 U.S. The defendant admitted that she understood that “they” were Lebanese Hizballah, a designated foreign terrorist organization. military involved in the assassination of Soleimani. Thompson’s co-conspirator requested her to provide “them” with information about the human assets of the U.S. 3 when Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani, as well as the founder of Kata’ib Hizballah, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis were assassinated as a result of a U.S. The United States launched a series of airstrikes targeting designated Iranian-backed terrorist organization “Kata’ib Hizballlah” around that time, according to the report. Thompson was assigned to a special operations task force facility in Iraq in December 2019. She pleaded guilty to leaking information to an unindicted co-conspirator, in whom she reportedly developed a romantic interest over a messaging application in 2017, and who she knew had a family member in the Lebanese Ministry of the Interior.ĭefense Department Linguist Pleads Guilty to Transmitting Highly Sensitive Classified National Defense Information to Aid a Foreign Government Mariam Taha Thompson, 63, was entrusted with a top secret government security clearance, the report says. military facility pleaded guilty to transmitting highly sensitive classified national defense information to Lebanese Hizballah, according to a Friday report by the Department of Justice. The affidavit highlighted some interesting remarks allegedly made by Thompson after she was arrested in Erbil (e.g., “I don’t know nothing about Hizballah,” members of Hizballah are “terrorists,” and Hizballah “is like the octopus”).A contract linguist at an overseas U.S. Thompson has been hit with espionage charges, namely: Delivering Defense Information to Aid a Foreign Government and conspiracy. Attorney for the District of Columbia Timothy Shea, Attorney General William Barr’s former counsel at DOJ, called Thompson’s alleged actions “a betrayal.”Īccording to the DOJ, FBI agents arrested Thompson on February 27 at U.S. This betrayal of country and colleagues will be punished.” “If true, this conduct is a disgrace, especially for someone serving as a contractor with the United States military. ![]() “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. military personnel in grave danger,” the DOJ press release on the matter said. “By compromising the identities of these human assets, Thompson placed the lives of the human assets and U.S. The Department of Justice said that Mariam Taha Thompson, identified as a former Minnesotan, gave a Lebanese national connected to Hizballah information “regarding active human assets, including their true names.” on Wednesday for allegedly transmitting highly classified information to a romantic interest with ties to a foreign terrorist organization. A 61-year-old linguist who worked as a contractor for the Department of Defense was charged in Washington, D.C.
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