Former CIA Analyst Sentenced to 37 Months in Prison for Leaking Top Secret National Defense Information
On June 11, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that former CIA analyst Asif William Rahman had been sentenced in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, in Alexandria, Virginia, to 37 months in prison for unlawfully retaining and transmitting top secret national defense information.
Rahman, 34, of Vienna, in Fairfax County, Virginia, had worked for the Central Intelligence Agency since 2016 and held a top secret security clearance with access to sensitive compartmented information. Prosecutors said that on October 17, 2024, he accessed and printed two top secret documents about a U.S. ally's planned actions against a foreign adversary, took them from his workplace, photographed them and sent them to people who were not entitled to receive them; the next day, the documents appeared, with their classification markings, on multiple social media platforms. Through November 2024 he repeatedly accessed, printed and transmitted other documents classified up to top secret and compartmented levels, and deleted his work product from his classified workstation to cover his tracks.
A federal grand jury indicted Rahman on November 7, 2024, and FBI agents arrested him at work on November 12; he has remained in custody since, and the CIA fired him. On January 17, 2025, he pleaded guilty to two counts of willful retention and transmission of classified national defense information.
Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Erik S. Siebert and FBI Counterintelligence Division Assistant Director Roman Rozhavsky commented on the sentence. The FBI's Washington Field Office investigated the case.
(Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
Source: U.S. Department of Justice
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