The mole referenced in the title:
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How many Iranian moles are operating in the upper echelons of the Biden-Harris administration? Officially, nobody knows, while nobody in the legacy media will ask. Counterintelligence experts in Washington, DC, do ask, that’s their job, albeit in hushed tones. Counterspies inside the Beltway tell me that another suspected Friend of Tehran recently was unmasked, and the implications of this case are deeply alarming for U.S. national security.
His name is Lawrence W.K. Casselle, and he’s one of the top officials in the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service. Although little known to the public, DSS are Foggy Bottom’s cops, the federal agents who guard American diplomats abroad as well as foreign government dignitaries when they visit the U.S. Importantly, DSS also provides counterintelligence oversight to the State Dept.
Casselle, a native of Las Vegas, joined the State Dept. as a Diplomatic Security special agent in 2003, following graduation from Hampton University on an ROTC scholarship, then four years on active duty with the U.S. Army as an infantry officer. Casselle’s DSS career has been very successful, with tours at home and abroad, including serving on the protective detail of then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from 2006 to 2008. He served as a Regional Security Officer in Kabul, then as senior RSO based in Belize. Casselle got important international experience in 2018-19 when he served in Baghdad as the DSS liaison to the Department of Defense’s Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (that’s the Pentagon’s term for our war against the Islamic State in the Middle East). Following that, he got the White House plum job of NSC Director for Counterterrorism (2019-20), then was promoted to be chief of staff for all DSS (2021-23).
Casselle was then promoted to be DSS regional director for the Near East (2023-24), including elevation to the Senior Foreign Service (State’s version of the Senior Executive Service for diplomats, equivalent to general officer rank in the military), to be moved up to Deputy Assistant Director of DSS in May of this year. Then, everything fell apart for this Foggy Bottom high-flyer. Casselle this summer came under suspicion for his ties to Tehran. When he was serving in the Middle East, apparently during his tour in Baghdad, Casselle became close with a foreign woman. They developed a romantic relationship, IC insiders tell me, and Casselle used his powerful job and State Dept. connections to help his new friend. Inconveniently, his paramour turned out to be an operative for Iranian intelligence.
How compromised Casselle is by this scandal isn’t yet known. IC counterspies tell me that they are trying to establish how close to Tehran Casselle got during his close relationship with that Iranian spy, but the State Dept. isn’t cooperating energetically with the counterintelligence investigation. If one of Foggy Bottom’s rising stars turns out to be an Iranian mole, the embarrassment to the department will be serious. Casselle’s superiors want this mess to simply go away.
Casselle isn’t just a top U.S. diplomat, he’s African American, which puts him perfectly in tune with the Biden-Harris emphasis on DEI in the federal government. . .
BTTT!
Good post. I noticed an interesting detail:
“He served as a Regional Security Officer in Kabul, then as senior RSO based in Belize”
Belize. Reminds me of the pro-Iran leaking translator Reality Winner, who traveled to Belize during the time she was conversing with foreigners.
Looks like he was in Belize before 2018.
There were a few interesting events in Belize in 2016.
McAfee was detained...a doctor from Virginia was murdered...and a very fishy campaign donation to Obama from Belize was exposed by Project Veritas’ O’Keefe.