A CIA official has been charged in reference to a leak of labeled US intelligence paperwork about Israel’s plans for a retaliatory strike on Iran, The New York Instances reported Wednesday.
Asif Rahman, who labored overseas for the Central Intelligence Company, was arrested in Cambodia by the FBI and was to look in a federal courtroom in Guam on Thursday, the newspaper mentioned.
It mentioned Rahman, who held a prime secret safety clearance, was indicted in Virginia final week with two counts of willful retention and transmission of nationwide intelligence info.
Iran unleashed a wave of near 200 ballistic missiles on Israel on October 1 in retaliation for the killings of Tehran-backed senior figures in Hamas and Hezbollah. Israel retaliated with a wave of strikes on navy targets in Iran in late October.
The labeled paperwork, circulated on the Telegram app by an account referred to as Center East Spectator, described Israeli preparations for a doable strike however didn’t establish any precise targets.
