US translator Mariam Thompson has been sentenced to 23 years in prison in the United States military facility for transmitting data to the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah on the operation that led to the assassination of Iranian Special Forces Commander Kasem Soleimani, the US Justice Department said. from world agencies.
Mariam Thompson was sentenced to 23 years in prison for passing classified information on national defense in order to help a foreign government, the ministry said in a statement.
Mariam Taha Thompson, 63, of Rochester, Minnesota, worked under contract as a translator at a U.S. military facility in Iraq, where she had access to top-secret government information.
Thompson admitted in March that she had passed on information extremely important to national security to a foreign citizen, a Lebanese, who passed it on to Hezbollah. She admitted that since 2017 she has been in a relationship with a man who claimed to be connected to Hezbollah.
Thompson was arrested by the FBI on February 27, 2020. By then, she had provided data on 10 secret intelligence sources, as well as information on at least 20 secret targets in the United States.
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