An Military doctor and her anesthesiologist spouse have been indicted for conspiring to offer Russia medical info to assist its invasion of Ukraine, the Justice Division introduced Thursday.
Maj. Jamie Lee Henry, a physician at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, and her spouse Anna Gabrielian, an anesthesiologist in Maryland, informed an undercover FBI agent in August they'd present medical info to the Russian authorities, in response to the indictment unsealed Thursday.
The Justice Division indictment refers to Henry as male, however in 2015, BuzzFeed Information reported that Henry turned the nation's first recognized energetic obligation transgender active- obligation U.S. Military officer, after the Military granted her request to alter her identify and gender.
Henry and Gabrielian met with a person they believed was related to the Russian authorities however who was actually an spy, the indictment stated. The couple allegedly informed the agent they may cross on medical information to Russia of U.S. navy, navy members of the family and different people.
Later, in a gathering at a lodge, Gabrielian allegedly supplied the agent with medical info of two individuals: the partner of an worker on the Workplace of Naval Intelligence and a veteran of the U.S. Air Pressure. Gabrielian identified a medical situation within the first file that Russia may exploit, the Justice Division stated.
Henry supplied the knowledge of a minimum of 5 people who have been sufferers at Fort Bragg and have been both navy veterans or associated to navy veterans, the indictment stated.
Henry and Gabrielian each allegedly informed the agent they have been dedicated to serving to Russia.
The indictment stated Gabrielian had reached out to the Russian embassy providing assist, and Henry had allegedly even tried to hitch the Russian navy after the invasion began however was informed Russia solely needed people who had fight expertise, which Henry lacks.
Henry was extra hesitant about violating the regulation limiting healthcare suppliers from sharing confidential medical information, however Gabrielian stated she violated the regulation "on a regular basis," the Justice Division stated.
Based on the indictment, Gabrielian informed the agent Henry was a extra helpful supply for Russia as a result of Henry had info on how the U.S. navy establishes military hospitals in conflict circumstances and about earlier coaching the U.S. navy had supplied to Ukrainian personnel.
A U.S. navy service file supplied to CBS Information verified that Henry is at present assigned to Fort Bragg, N.C., as a workers internist with a rank of Main and has no fight deployments.
The indictment stated Henry holds a Secret-level safety clearance, which permits entry to info whose launch would trigger critical harm to nationwide safety.
Throughout their first assembly in a lodge room, the Justice Division stated Gabrielian informed the agent that if something have been to occur to her and Henry, she needed their youngsters "to have a pleasant flight to Turkey to go on trip as a result of I do not wish to finish in jail right here with my children being hostages over my head."
Gabrielian and Henry have been each anticipated to have their first courtroom appearances Thursday.