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ICYMI: DOD linguist pleads guilty to transmitting classified info to person connected to Hizballah, including identities of 10 human assets & 20 U.S. targets.

Defense Department Linguist Pleads Guilty to Transmitting Highly Sensitive Classified National Defense Information to Aid a Foreign Government

WASHINGTON – A Minnesota woman pleaded guilty today to one count of delivering national defense information to aid a foreign government.

According to court documents, Mariam Taha Thompson, 63, formerly of Rochester, Minnesota, worked as a contract linguist at an overseas U.S. military facility where she was entrusted with a top secret government security clearance. Thompson pleaded guilty to transmitting highly sensitive classified national defense information to a foreign national who she believed would provide the information to Lebanese Hizballah, a designated foreign terrorist organization.

“Thompson jeopardized the lives of members of the U.S. military as well as other individuals supporting the United States in a combat zone when she passed classified information to a person she knew was connected to Lebanese Hizballah, a foreign terrorist organization which intended to use the information to hurt this country,” said Assistant Attorney General John C. Demers for the Justice Department's National Security Division. “To describe this conduct is to condemn it. She will now be held to account for this disgraceful personal and professional betrayal of country and colleagues.”

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https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/defense-department-linguist-pleads-guilty-transmitting-highly-sensitive-classified-national

Note: Thompson's final plea, statement of facts andindictment are attached.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1380441/download

https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1380446/download

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