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A former CIA analyst was sentenced to three years in prison for leaking classified information online in October 2024.
Asif William Rahman joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 2016 after graduating from Yale University and was assigned to an office inside the US embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia at the time of the leak.
On October 17th, 2024, Rahman printed two top-secret classified documents related to planned air strikes on targets in Iran by the Israeli Air Force. The strikes were in retaliation for a missile barrage launched by Iran against Israel on October 1st.
According to the New York Post, the documents originated with the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and included satellite imagery of Israeli air bases taken on October 15th and 16th, plus the types of missiles to be used, based on the observed movement of munitions carts on the air bases.
He smuggled the documents out of the embassy in his backpack, photographed them, and sent them to several individuals online. The following day, the images were broadcast on the Telegram app by an account named Middle East Spectator. They quickly spread online, causing Israel to delay the planned strikes until October 26th.
Prior to October 17th he also printed and photographed at least 15 other classified documents on several occasions beginning in the spring of 2024.
According to the Washington Post, Rahman deleted 1.5 gigabytes of data from his workstation after printing the documents and then destroyed a smartphone and router used to transmit the documents. He had also downloaded and retained other classified documents related to the Middle East even after losing access to them.
Rahman was arrested in Cambodia by the FBI in November 2024 and pleaded guilty to two charges related to espionage in January 2025. Although he faced between 6.5 and 20 years in prison, he was sentenced to just 37 months of incarceration in June 2025, based partly on cooperation with investigators and prosecutors.
Former CIA officer Sean Wiswesser said the London Russian embassy operated like a “giant ear”:
“It is a major signals and listening post for the collection of electronic intelligence, signals intelligence, and generally as much data and cyber collection they can possibly do from the embassy,” the author of Tradecraft, Tactics and Dirty Tricks said.
🚨The Russians use their embassies and other “establishment” offices as beds of spies…
Also…from the article:
“The GRU operatives dispatched to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal with novichok in 2018 were housed in hotels and removed rapidly from Britain, but UK intelligence services noted “unusual and increased activity” at the Russian embassy in the days around the attack.
⚠️Wiswesser said there ‘would certainly have been support’ from intelligence officials operating within the London embassy for the ‘collection of background and intelligence’ that fed into both the Skripal and Litvinenko killings.”
Appreciated the iPaper in UK quoting me several times for their excellent piece on Russian intelligence malign activities on their soil. My views mine alone, not the USG…
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Eight Greeks whose phones were hacked by Predator spyware just sued Intellexa for €1 million each.
Intellexa is an Athens-based surveillance company founded by Tal Dilian former Israeli military intelligence. its flagship product, Predator, is Pegasus's direct competitor. same capabilities. zero-click. reads your messages after decryption. activates your mic and camera. tracks your location.
Predatorgate emerged in 2022 when a financial journalist and an opposition party leader discovered their phones had been infected. the scandal brought down Greece's intelligence chief and the prime minister's chief of staff.
in February 2026 a Greek court convicted Dilian and three associates for breaching personal data confidentiality. combined sentences: 126 years and 8 months. actual time capped at 8 years pending appeal.
Dilian's response: "I will not be a scapegoat. we sold to governments. they decided who to target."
now eight confirmed victims are suing Intellexa and 13 individuals for €8 million total.
their lawyer says more lawsuits will follow.
this is the same argument NSO Group made about Pegasus. same argument Paragon made about Graphite.
"we sell the tool. we don't choose the target."
courts are starting to disagree.
Pegasus: sued by WhatsApp. won. $168 million damages.
Graphite: ICE contract exposed. Congressional investigation.
Predator: criminal convictions. civil suits. €1 million per victim.
well looks like the spyware industry's legal immunity is ending.
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