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US charges CIA contractor with giving classified data to journalist partner
The FBI arrested CIA contractor Ian Brinksman, who is accused under the Espionage Act of giving information from classified intelligence reports to a journalist with whom he was in a relationship.
The FBI arrested 42-year-old Ian Brinksman, who worked as a CIA contractor. He was charged under the Espionage Act with unlawfully transferring information related to national defense. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison.
An FBI employee testified under oath that, from March to October, Brinksman accessed five classified intelligence reports unrelated to his official duties and passed information from them to his romantic partner, a journalist identified in the document as “Person No. 1.” She has not been charged.
Israeli outlet Ynet reported that the leaks concerned Israel’s efforts to persuade Washington to eliminate a senior Iranian official, US-Israeli military cooperation and a CIA assessment of the risk of civil conflict in Israel. The details appeared in media reports, not in official charging documents.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe said that the unauthorized disclosure of classified materials creates serious risks to national security, intelligence sources, ongoing operations and agency personnel.
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