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Suspected Hezbollah mole pleads guilty to FBI file snooping _____ BY JAMES GORDON MEEK DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU Wednesday, November 14th 2007, 4:00 AM WASHINGTON - A suspected Hezbollah mole who penetrated the ranks of the FBI and CIA pleaded guilty Tuesday to falsely getting U.S. citizenship and snooping in FBI terrorism files. Former waitress Nada Nadim Prouty, 37, of Vienna, Va., admitted arranging a sham marriage with an American in Michigan to win U.S. citizenship. She parlayed that into sensitive jobs as an FBI special agent and a CIA operations officer, sources said. Sources told The News that Prouty is believed to be a double-agent planted in the agencies by Hezbollah or its supporters, though government officials downplayed her ties to the Shiite terror group and the damage done. As an FBI agent assigned to probing crimes against Americans overseas, and more recently as a spy in a Middle East unit in the CIA's clandestine service, Prouty had access to secrets. A few weeks before leaving the FBI to join the CIA in 2003, Prouty peeked at classified computer files on an open Hezbollah probe by the FBI's Detroit office. Her link to Hezbollah is through fugitive Detroit restaurateur Talal Khalil Chahine - now on the lam in Lebanon to avoid U.S. tax charges - who was an accomplice in her citizenship scam. Allegedly a friend of top Hezbollah leaders, he sent a letter to U.S. immigration officials in 1992 saying her sham marriage was for real. Prouty used to wait tables in his La Shish cafes. In August 2000, Prouty's sister married Chahine. A month later the rookie FBI agent searched the bureau's Automated Case Support computer system for her name, her sister's and Chahine's. FBI-agent-turned-Russian spy Robert Hanssen often did the same thing to see if the bureau was on to him. Prouty's sister joined her husband at a 2002 event in Lebanon, where Chahine gave a speech with Sheik Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, a Hezbollah spiritual leader designated by the U.S. as a terrorist. Fadlallah issued the fatwa blessing Hezbollah's 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, officials have said. Prouty's plea deal to relatively minor citizenship fraud and computer intrusion charges includes pledging to cooperate with the CIA - but the agency is not treating the case as espionage. "This was a naturalization case with a few inappropriate computer searches," a U.S. official said. "The agency was too trusting of the FBI's ability to do a background check." Law enforcement sources said the State Department had done extensive interviews of Prouty's associates in Lebanon before the FBI hired her. "She's not a member of Hezbollah," one law enforcement official insisted. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
