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She then began accessing national defense information that she did not have a need to access or know and showing her notes containing the secret information to the man, the documents said. Thompson believed that if she did not pass on the classified information that her relationship with the Lebanese national “would come to an end” and he “would not marry her.” “Thompson understood ‘them’ to be Lebanese. airstrikes, especially the death of, and he started to ask Thompson to provide ‘them’ with information about the human assets that had helped the United States to target” the Iranian commander, the court documents said. The man was “very emotional and upset about the U.S. That changed after Soleimani was killed by the U.S. Prosecutors said Thompson did not tell the man where she was stationed and said he had not asked for classified information before January 2020. The man also claimed to have contact with members of Hezbollah. Through their chats, the now 63-year-old Thompson learned that the man, who is unnamed in the court documents, had a nephew who was a member of the Lebanese Ministry of the Interior. The two communicated frequently from 2017 to 2020.
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Though she never met the man in person, the man expressed interest in marrying her and having her move to Lebanon, the court documents said. Years before she began passing classified information, she was introduced to a Lebanese national on social media via a family member, according to the statement of facts that she agreed to as part of her plea. Thompson, who held a top secret security clearance, had been stationed at a Special Operations Task Force facility in Iraq from mid-December 2019 until her arrest a few months later. killed Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian military commander, in an airstrike in early 2020, according to court documents. Mariam Taha Thompson began sending the information after the U.S. human intelligence sources to an individual with ties to Hezbollah, a Lebanese terrorist organization, the Department of Justice said. MA/ 10:07 PM / CBS NEWS A linguist for the Department of Defense pleaded guilty on Friday to passing classified information about U.S. 3 assassination of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani and the founder of Kata’ib Hizballah, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.Pentagon linguist pleads guilty to exposing U.S. airstrikes were launched, targeting designated Iranian-backed terrorist organization “Kata’ib Hizballlah.” The operation culminated in the Jan. (RELATED: DOD Linguist Pleads Guilty To Feeding Top Secret Government Information To Hizballah After Falling In Love)Īround the same time, a series of U.S. Thompson was reportedly entrusted with sensitive information stored at a special operations task force facility in Iraq, where she was assigned in December 2019, according to the DOJ. Department of Justice (DOJ).ĭefense Department Linguist Sentenced to 23 Years in Prison for Transmitting Highly Sensitive Classified National Defense Information to Aid a Foreign Government 26 to transmitting information to an unindicted co-conspirator, whom she knew had a family member in the Lebanese Ministry of the Interior, according to a March press release by the U.S. Mariam Taha Thompson, 62, of Rochester, Minnesota, had pleaded guilty Mar. military facility was sentenced Wednesday to 23 years in prison for feeding classified national defense information to a Lebanese national with whom she had fallen in love. A former contract linguist at an overseas U.S.