A US intelligence official has been charged with espionage offenses following an investigation into the leak last month of highly classified documents detailing Israel’s plans for military attacks on Iran.
Asif W Rahman, who works for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), will appear in court in Guam on Thursday charged with two counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
The newspaper said FBI agents arrested Rahman in Cambodia on Tuesday following his indictment last week in federal court in Virginia.
In October, the White House said it was “deeply concerned” by the unauthorized release of the papers, attributed to the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and National Security Agency, which were published on the Telegram messaging app.
CSIS isn’t even well known because they’re either dependent or it’s because most people don’t even know Canada has a security agency.
How is how well known they are relevant? Would that make a leak more or less palletable? Are you familiar with the “five eyes”?
That’s not the only one here.
This is the super duper secret one:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Security_Establishment
And there’s another I’ve heard about, but can’t recall right now.
Canada is involved in some shady shit, to be sure.
I wonder what CSIS does? Don’t know what Canada considers threats.
kagis
Man, the US think tank CSIS dominates the Canadian intelligence agency CSIS in search results.
Okay, here’s their jobs page.
https://www.canada.ca/en/security-intelligence-service/corporate/csis-jobs/available-jobs.html
And their language people:
https://www.canada.ca/en/security-intelligence-service/corporate/csis-jobs/available-jobs/foreign-language-communications-analyst.html
Mmm. So Middle East, China, Russia, and India/Pakistan.
EDIT: Looks like India/Pakistan only made the list recently. Using Archive.org to go back to 2018:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180222080221/https://www.canada.ca/en/security-intelligence-service/corporate/csis-jobs/available-jobs/foreign-language-communications-analyst.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/secret-cold-war-plan-included-mass-detentions-1.962421
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROFUNC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Canada