News | Business
10 Feb 2025 12:03
NZCity News
NZCity CalculatorReturn to NZCity

  • Start Page
  • Personalise
  • Sport
  • Weather
  • Finance
  • Shopping
  • Jobs
  • Horoscopes
  • Lotto Results
  • Photo Gallery
  • Site Gallery
  • TVNow
  • Dating
  • SearchNZ
  • NZSearch
  • Crime.co.nz
  • RugbyLeague
  • Make Home
  • About NZCity
  • Contact NZCity
  • Your Privacy
  • Advertising
  • Login
  • Join for Free

  •   Home > News > Business

    Former CIA analyst pleads guilty to leaking info on planned Israeli attack on Iran

    A former CIA official has pleaded guilty to leaking top secret US intelligence documents about Israeli plans for a retaliatory strike on Iran.


    A former CIA official has pleaded guilty to leaking top secret US intelligence documents on a planned Israeli attack on Iran.

    Asif Rahman was arrested by the FBI in November weeks after classified documents appeared on the Telegram messaging app.

    The 34-year-old worked for the Central Intelligence Agency since 2016 and held a top secret security clearance.

    Rahman faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty in a federal court in Virginia to two counts of wilful retention and transmission of national defence information.

    Top secret documents printed out, court filing says

    Iran unleashed a wave of close to 200 ballistic missiles on Israel on October 1 in retaliation for the killings of senior figures in the Tehran-backed Hamas and Hezbollah militant groups.

    Israel retaliated with a wave of strikes on military targets in Iran in late October.

    According to a court filing, Rahman printed out two top secret documents "regarding a United States foreign ally and its planned kinetic actions against a foreign adversary" on October 17. 

    The filing said he photographed the documents and used a computer program to edit the images in "an attempt to conceal their source and delete his activity".

    Rahman then allegedly transmitted the documents to "multiple individuals he knew were not entitled to receive them" before shredding them at work.

    The filing added that "Rahman also destroyed multiple electronic devices, including a personal mobile device and an internet router he used to transmit classified information" and discarded the devices in public trash bins.

    Two documents that surfaced on Telegram in October noted that Israel was still moving military assets in place to conduct a military strike in response to Iran's blistering ballistic missile attack on October 1.

    High school valedictorian, Yale student 

    He was born in California and moved with his family when he was a child to Cincinnati, where he was a high school valedictorian, according to court papers submitted by his lawyer. 

    He went to Yale University and graduated in three years. 

    Assistant Attorney-General Matthew Olsen said in a statement that "Mr Rahman betrayed the trust of the American people by unlawfully sharing classified national defence information he swore an oath to protect".

    The documents were shareable within the "Five Eyes," which are the United States, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

    AFP/AP


    ABC




    © 2025 ABC Australian Broadcasting Corporation. All rights reserved

     Other Business News
     10 Feb: Banks have been working through a backlog of lending requests, that left customers facing weeks-long delays
     10 Feb: Confidence overseas investors will take up opportunities provided by visa changes
     10 Feb: Rising dairy prices continue to affect supermarket costs
     09 Feb: New Zealanders feeling a financial-crunch will still need to watch their spending as inflation starts to ease
     09 Feb: Financial pressure for home-owners is set to ease as inflation stabilises
     08 Feb: A construction analyst claims Kainga Ora paid three times the market price for a dozen Canterbury units
     07 Feb: Food Safety New Zealand has given Chelsea Sugar a stark warning - for making and selling almost one-thousand tonnes of lead-contaminated sugar products
     Top Stories

    RUGBY RUGBY
    Three-time Super Bowl winner Riki Ellison believes Philadelphia's chances of toppling Kansas City in the Super Bowl will be determined by the output of their running back More...


    BUSINESS BUSINESS
    Banks have been working through a backlog of lending requests, that left customers facing weeks-long delays More...



     Today's News

    Golf:
    Celebrations for Josh Geary after a day of golfing mayhem on the coast south of Melbourne 11:57

    Entertainment:
    Angelina Jolie has revealed how her iconic 'Tomb Raider' role forced her to quit smoking and overhaul her physical routine 11:42

    National:
    ‘America First’ trade policy is pushing economic self-sufficiency – but history shows this is harder than it seems 11:17

    Education:
    Can schools enforce uniform policies like short hair for boys and skirts for girls? 11:17

    Entertainment:
    A new Britney Spears book promising to expose the full truth of her turbulent life story is being released 11:12

    Rugby League:
    Philadelphia coach Nick Sirianni was convinced his team could reach the NFL Super Bowl for the second time in three years, despite a poor start to the season 11:07

    Business:
    Banks have been working through a backlog of lending requests, that left customers facing weeks-long delays 10:47

    Entertainment:
    Megan Fox has reportedly ended her relationship with Machine Gun Kelly "for good" 10:42

    Living & Travel:
    Environment Canterbury is expecting to hear soon, whether it will be allowed to reinstate bike racks on buses during the day 10:27

    Entertainment:
    Bianca Censori has literally laughed off the controversy still raging around her naked red carpet appearance at the Grammys 10:12


     News Search






    Power Search


    © 2025 New Zealand City Ltd