CIA failed to properly deal with sexual assault claims among its own employees with 'little to no accountability or punishment', House intelligence committee report finds
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The report found there was 'little to no accountability' for perpetrators
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It also found that victims were not given anonymity, and were put off reporting
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Investigators reviewed over 4,000 pages of documents
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The CIA failed to properly deal with sexual assault allegations among its own staff, according to a House intelligence committee report.
The final report, obtained by Politico, revealed there was 'little to no accountability or punishment for confirmed perpetrators', and that there was 'confusion and disorder' in the reporting process.
The report also found that victims did not have anonymity, and were deterred from reporting sexual assaults, and that the CIA had an 'inconsistent approach to, or a lack of, timely coordination with law enforcement.'
The inquiry, which began in January 2023 after a female CIA employee alleged she had been attacked and sexually assaulted by a fellow officer, saw investigators trawl through 4,000 pages of documents and interview 26 whistleblowers inside the agency.
On top of this, two oversight hearings were held. The committee wrote in the report's executive summary: 'Over the course of the investigation, the committee discovered that CIA failed to handle allegations of sexual assault and harassment within its workforce in the professional and uniform manner that such sensitive allegations warrant.'
>Ashkan Bayatpour (pictured) was convicted of sex attack on a female CIA colleague
>William J Burns (pictured) is the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
The final report, obtained by Politico , revealed there was 'little to no accountability or punishment for confirmed perpetrators'
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The report comes after a female whistleblower who was sexually assaulted in a stairwell at Langley, the CIA's headquarters, was fired from the agency, which disputed her account as 'factually inaccurate.'
This is despite the perpetrator, 39-year-old Ashkan Bayatpour being convicted in August 2023 of attacking the trainee CIA officer in July 2022 by coming up behind her with a scarf in the secluded area and forcibly trying to kiss her, being allowed to stay at the agency for several months after his conviction.
She alleged in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed against the agency that it retaliated against her for reporting the assault by giving her harsher performance reviews and 'slut shaming' her by improperly releasing her personal information.
The 36-year-old did not make it through the agency´s clandestine officer training program known as 'the Farm' and, unlike many of her classmates, was not hired into another job.
>The Farm