A few weeks ago I wrote about a botched background investigation of a former FBI and CIA Intelligence Analyst who entered into a sham marriage to gain citizenship. It turns out that she had ties to Hezbollah.
Now a US Marine Captain has plead guilty of helping the potential Hezbollah operative gain citizenship in the same way she herself did. Read Hezbollah: Signs of a Sophisticated Intelligence Apparatus to see how an incompetent background investigation can have far-reaching implications.
the cases demonstrate that the FBI, CIA and Marine Corps all failed to detect this web of sham marriages when they conducted background investigations on the women in question, especially since the marriages were within the seven-year investigative window required for Prouty’s FBI clearance and Spinelli’s enlistment in the Marine Corps. A full field background investigation should have been able to determine the nature of the sham marriages, given that the women never lived with their purported husbands.”
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