Posted on 03/11/2004 3:07:02 PM PST by optimistically_conservative
Susan Lindauer, the former Democratic congressional aide charged with spying for Iraq, was arrested several months after meeting with an FBI agent who posed as a Libyan intelligence agent looking to recruit support for Iraqi groups attacking U.S. forces in the aftermath of the war.
According to the indictment charging Lindauer with conspiracy to spy for Iraq, that meeting took place on June 23, 2003, in Baltimore, Maryland. The indictment charges that Lindauer and the agent "discussed the need for plans and foreign resources to support [resistance] groups operating within Iraq."
The indictment says Lindauer met with the agent again on July 17, 2003, to discuss the same topic. Then, according to prosecutors, the undercover FBI agent instructed Lindauer to leave a set of documents at a designated spot in Takoma Park, Maryland, the suburb of Washington, D.C., where Lindauer lives. The indictment says Lindauer left the requested documents on August 6, 2003, and left another set of documents on August 21, 2003.
During the period from June 2003 until February 2004, the indictment alleges, Lindauer remained in regular e-mail contact with the FBI undercover agent, whom she believed was working for Libya.
According to the indictment, Lindauer's efforts to assist the Iraqi resistance came after years of contacts with Iraqi intelligence agents. The indictment says those contacts began in October 1999, when Lindauer first met with Iraqi agents in New York.
The indictment alleges that Lindauer met with a representative of the Iraqi Intelligence Service in New York on September 19, 2001, just eight days after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
The indictment charges that not long after 9/11, Lindauer and her co-conspirators gave Iraqi intelligence agents information about Iraqi expatriates in the United States. Prosecutors say Lindauer usually met with Iraqi intelligence agents in New York and was reimbursed for her travel and meals.
The indictment says Lindauer traveled to Baghdad in February 2002 as a guest of the Iraqi Intelligence Service. Prosecutors say Lindauer met with several Iraqi agents during the trip. She also allegedly accepted about $5,000 in cash from the agents.
In all, Lindauer is charged with receiving about $10,000 from the Iraqi Intelligence Service.
In one intriguing passage, the indictment charges that on January 8, 2003, Lindauer "delivered, to the home of an United States government official, a letter in which Lindauer conveyed her established access to, and contacts with, members of the Saddam Hussein regime, in an unsuccessful attempt to influence United States foreign policy." The indictment gives no further details and does not include the identity of the government official, or whether that official reported the incident to authorities.
Lindauer is a former journalist for U.S. News & World Report, as well as for Fortune magazine and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. She also worked as a spokeswoman for then-Representative (and now Senator) Ron Wyden of Oregon, as well as former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun.
It's going to be very interesting when 'her co-conspirators' are named...........
I thought spies were executed. Isn't that what happened to the Nazi spies caught in this country during WWII. It seems appropriate in this case.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA : :
- v. - INDICTMENT
S2 03 Cr. 807 (MBM) :
:
: : : SUSAN LINDAUER, a/k/a “Symbol SUSAN,"
RAED NOMAN AL-ANBUKE, a/k/a “Ra’id Al Anbuge,” a/k/a “Raed Rokan,” a/k/a “Raed Al-Anbaki,” and
WISAM NOMAN AL-ANBUKE, a/k/a “Wisam Al Anbuge,” a/k/a “Wisam Noman Rokan,” : Defendants.
- "Text of indictment against American spying for Iraq," Findlaw. com, March 11, 2004
Co-conspirators
Wisam Noman al-Anbuge
and Raed Rokan Al-Anbuge
are the sons of Rokan Al-Anbuge
who is Iraq's former liason with UN weapons inspectors- he was Iraq's Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations
Thanks.
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