Ex-CIA Officer Charged

Jeffrey Sterling, 43, an ex-CIA officer has been arrested and charged with...

...six counts of unauthorized disclosure of national defense information and one count of unlawfully keeping national defense, mail fraud, unauthorized conveyance of government property and obstructing justice.

He disclosed information to a New York Times reporter concerning national defense about Iran.

Sterling, a lawyer who worked at the CIA from 1993 to 2002, was arrested in St. Louis near where he lives.
From 1998 through mid-2000, he was assigned to a classified clandestine program that conducted intelligence activities about the weapons capabilities of certain countries, the Justice Department said in announcing the indictment against Sterling.

A legal source familiar with the case said one of the countries involved was Iran.

In the same time period, Sterling also was an operations officer who handled a human asset associated with that program, according to the indictment.

Beginning in mid-2000, Sterling complained of employment-related racial discrimination at the CIA and challenging CIA decisions about his efforts to publish his memoirs.

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