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Army’s First Trans Officer Indicted for Selling Secrets to Russia


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Major Jamie Lee Henry, the Army’s first trans officer, was indicted for trying to give secret records to the Russian government.

The major’s wife, Dr. Anna Gabrielian of Johns Hopkins, also faces indictment.

Dr. Gabrielian reportedly told Major Henry to stop being a ‘coward’ and to overlook ‘ethical issues’ when the couple tried to hand over medical records of senior military officers and their families to Russia.

“Major Jamie Lee Henry, 39, and Johns Hopkins Dr. Anna Gabrielian, 36, were accused of using their secret security clearance at North Carolina’s Fort Bragg to steal the records from the base’s hospital, according to the Department of Justice,” The Daily Mail reported.

Fort Bragg is among one of the most populated military installations in the world, housing about 52,000 active duty soldiers. The base is home to the US Army’s Delta Force and Special Operations Forces.

The couple, from Rockville, Maryland, had communicated and met with an undercover FBI agent who they believed was from the Russian embassy in order to deliver files that the Kremlin ‘could exploit.’

According to the indictment, which was unsealed on Thursday, Gabrielian said she was motivated by her patriotism to Russia, with Henry using her clearance as a staff internist to help secure the files.

‘My point of view is until the United States actually declares war against Russia, I’m able to help as much as I want,’ Henry allegedly told the undercover agent when they met to set up the deal in August. ‘At that point, I’ll have some ethical issues I’ll have to work through.’

‘You’ll work through those ethical issues,’ Gabrielian allegedly replied, adding that Henry was a ‘coward’ over fears of breaking HIPPA.

The Post Millennial added:

The pair discussed “plausible deniability” with the agent. As the indictment reads, “Gabrilelian suggested a cover story for their interactions, and a plan for Gabrielian and Henry’s children to flee the US quickly if Gabrielian and Henry were told to act in a way that could expose their communications and actions to the US government.”

The couple met the FBI agent again on August 31 and handed over hard intel. At a Gaithersburg, Maryland hotel, Gabrielian passed along data that included medical records of a spouse of an Office of Naval Intelligence man. At that same meeting Henry passed along intel on 5 high level soldiers at Fort Bragg.

The federal indictment came down in a US District Court in Baltimore and they were charged with conspiracy to disclose health information. The indictment specifies that they were doing so to show “the potential for the Russian government to gain insights into the medical conditions of individuals associated with the US government and military, to exploit this information.”



 

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