Asif William Rahman, Unlawful National Defense Information Transmission, Virginia 2026

A former CIA analyst has been sentenced to over three years in prison for unlawfully transmitting Top Secret National Defense Information to individuals who were not entitled to receive it.

Asif William Rahman, 34, of Vienna, Virginia, was an employee of the CIA since 2016 and had a Top Secret security clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) until his employment was terminated after his arrest.

According to court documents, Rahman accessed and printed two Top Secret documents containing National Defense Information regarding a U.S. foreign ally and its planned actions against a foreign adversary on Oct. 17, 2024.

Rahman removed the documents, photographed them, and transmitted them to individuals he knew were not entitled to receive them. By Oct. 18, 2024, the documents appeared publicly on multiple social media platforms, complete with the classification markings.

Rahman was indicted by a grand jury on Nov. 7, 2024, and was arrested by the FBI as he arrived to work on Nov. 12, 2024. On Jan. 17, Rahman pleaded guilty to two counts of willful retention and transmission of classified information related to the national defense.

For his crimes, Rahman was sentenced to 37 months in prison. He has remained in custody since his arrest.

The FBI Washington Field Office investigated the case, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Troy A. Edwards Jr. for the Eastern District of Virginia and Trial Attorney Christopher Cook of the National Security Division's Counterintelligence and Export Control Section prosecuted the case.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-cia-analyst-sentenced-over-three-years-prison-unlawfully-transmitting-top-secret