The FBI has arrested a man accused of leaking highly classified U.
S. intelligence documents detailing Israel's potential attack plans against Iran. According to court filings and sources close to the investigation, Asif W. Rahman has been charged by the Justice Department with the willful retention and transmission of national defense information. His arrest took place on Tuesday in Cambodia, and he is set to make his initial court appearance in Guam, though authorities have requested that the trial be moved to Virginia.
Rahman, who reportedly worked for the CIA and held a top-secret security clearance with access to sensitive compartmentalized information, allegedly leaked the documents through a Telegram channel named “Middle East Spectator” in mid-October. The materials, marked “top secret,” were restricted to the U.S. and its “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing allies: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
One of the leaked documents, reported by *The New York Times* and sourced from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, described a plan involving Israel's movement of munitions. Another, linked to the National Security Agency, outlined Israeli Air Force exercises involving air-to-surface missile strikes.
These leaks, revealing critical details of Israeli military capabilities and strategies, raise significant concerns about national security and intelligence-sharing vulnerabilities among allied nations.
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