Washington:
A CIA worker who was accused of leaking categorised paperwork about Israel’s plans to strike Iran pleaded responsible on Friday to legal costs that he willfully retained and transmitted nationwide protection data, the U.S. Division of Justice mentioned.
In pleading responsible, Asif William Rahman, who labored on the U.S. intelligence company since 2016, acknowledged that he illegally downloaded, printed and distributed categorised data on a number of events, together with a number of in 2024.
Within the spring of 2024, he printed 5 paperwork that have been labeled as secret and high secret from his work laptop and took them house, court docket data within the case mentioned. He then reproduced and altered them and shared them with individuals who weren’t legally entitled to obtain them. To cover his conduct, Rahman deleted his exercise from his digital units, introduced the data again to work and had them shredded.
A second time, within the autumn of 2024, the court docket filings mentioned he printed one other 10 paperwork with a high secret classification, took them house and shared them with others.
Then on Oct. 17, 2024, he printed two extra paperwork associated to plans by a U.S. ally to strike a international adversary, the court docket data mentioned.
These paperwork, which entailed plans by Israel to strike Iran, later appeared on-line after a pro-Iranian Telegram account referred to as “Center East Spectator” revealed them.
This case is filed within the U.S. District Court docket for the Jap District of Virginia.
Rahman, 34, is from Vienna, Virginia, and was arrested in Cambodia, in keeping with court docket data. He’s scheduled to be sentenced on Might 15.
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