'I just wanted someone to love me in my old age': Pentagon linguist, 62, is jailed for 23 years for giving her Hezbollah-linked Lebanese man a list of US spies' names that she kept under her mattress after he promised to marry her when she retired
Mariam Taha Thompson was a translator for the US military in Iraq when she was arrested in February 2020 She had been giving classified information to a Lebanese man her relatives in Lebanon had introduced her to over social media The man promised to marry her and bring her to Lebanon when she retired In December 2019, the US killed Iranian General Quasem Soleimani in an airstrike that also took out a Hezbollah leader Thompson's love interest said he was 'very upset' about it and asked her for the names of the US spies behind it He also asked her for a list of the targets the US were going to pursue next She agreed, accessing the information at work then either memorizing or writing it on Post-It notes and reciting it to the man over video chat later On Wednesday, she begged the judge for mercy and said she was just 'desperate for love in her old age' By Jennifer Smith For Dailymail.com
Published: 17:51 BST, 24 June 2021 | Updated: 17:57 BST, 24 June 2021
A 62-year-old Pentagon linguist has been jailed for 23 years for giving her Hezbollah-linked Lebanese love interest a list of US spies' names that she had been keeping under her mattress.
Mariam Taha Thompson sobbed as she was sentenced on Wednesday in Washington's federal court, saying: 'I just wanted someone to love me in my old age.'
She had never met the man in person, and was introduced to him on social media by her Lebanese relatives on social media in 2019.
The man, who is not named in the indictment, asked her to marry him when she retired and move to Lebanon. She agreed, and started video-chatting with him, convinced that they'd be a couple once she quit her job.
Instead, she was arrested in Iraq in February 2020 after turning over the names of eight US spies and ten US targets to him in the wake of an airstrike that killed Iranian General Quasem Soleimani.
At her sentencing hearing on Wednesday, Thompson - who was born in Lebanon but became a naturalized US citizen - said she was overcome by a desperation for love in her old age.
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