American Charged With Spying (For IRAQ) - Update: Former Mosely Braun,Lofren, DeFazio, and Wyden Aid

Associated Press ^ | 3/11/04

[SierraWasp]

NEW YORK -- An American citizen was arrested Thursday on charges she acted as an Iraqi spy, prosecutors said.

Susan Lindauer, 41, was arrested in her hometown of Takoma Park, Md., and was to appear in court later in the day in Baltimore, authorities in New York said.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting this great find.

I have c&p ed the entire article. Articles like this often have a way of disappearing or getting lost on AP.

American Citizen Charged With Spying




By LARRY NEUMEISTER
Associated Press Writer

March 11, 2004, 10:54 AM EST

NEW YORK -- An American citizen was arrested Thursday on charges she acted as an Iraqi spy before and after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, accepting $10,000 for her work, prosecutors said Thursday.

Susan Lindauer, 41, was arrested in her hometown of Takoma Park, Md., and was to appear in court later in the day in Baltimore, authorities in New York said.

She was accused of conspiring to act as a spy for the Iraqi Intelligence Service and with engaging in prohibited financial transactions involving the government of Iraq under dictator Saddam Hussein.

According to an indictment filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Lindauer made multiple visits from October 1999 through March 2002 to the Iraqi Mission to the United Nations in Manhattan.

There, she met with several members of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, the foreign intelligence arm of the government of Iraq that allegedly has played a role in terrorist operations, including an attempted assassination of former President George H.W. Bush, the indictment alleged.

The government said she accepted payments from the Iraqis for her services and expenses amounting to a total of $10,000, including $5,000 she received during a trip to Baghdad in February and March 2002, where she met with Iraqi intelligence officers.

Her acceptance of the money and her willingness to bring it home from Iraq violated a law prohibiting transactions with a government that sponsors international terrorism, the government said. The indictment did not specify a motive.

The charges against Lindauer were included in an expanded indictment in the case against Raed Rokan Al-Anbuge, 28, and Wisam Noman Al-Anbuke, the sons of Iraq's former liaison with United Nations weapons inspectors.

The brothers were charged last year with acting as Iraqi government agents and conspiring to do so, prosecutors said. The indictment said Lindauer conspired with the brothers.

On Jan. 8, 2003, prosecutors said, Lindauer tried to influence U.S. foreign policy by delivering to the home of a U.S. government official a letter in which she conveyed her access to and contacts with members of Saddam's regime. The official was not identified in the indictment.

The United States invaded Iraq in March of last year, and the government fell the following month.

The indictment said she met on two occasions in Baltimore in June and July with an undercover FBI agent who posed as a Libyan intelligence representative who was seeking to support resistance groups in postwar Iraq. It said she discussed the need for plans and foreign resources to support these groups.

According to the indictment, she continued to correspond with the undercover agent until last month and followed the agent's instructions to leave packages on two occasions in August in "dead drop" operations.

Lindauer, who has not yet been assigned a defense lawyer, faces up to 10 years in prison on the most serious charge and five years on the lesser charge if she is convicted, prosecutors said.

Copyright © 2004, The Associated Press

[AmericanInTokyo]

She is reported to have participated in at least two "dead drops". (Going to a secret place and placing documents and/or picking up documents or payments in return for espionage).

Wow. Let's see the looks on the faces of her former bosses inside the media and on Capitol Hill, over THIS one.

[cripplecreek]

WE need pictures of this woman and we need pictures of her with democratic officials. But lets make sure shes the right woman.

[texasbluebell]

And so let it be understood by the court: I make these statements of my own free will, out of respect to my own conscience and sense of obligation as a world citizen.

And according to post #29 that quotes a deposition she made, she doesn't even consider herself an American first. Why am I not surprised?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Holy Cow!

[Just mythoughts]

"The Tacoma Park address ties her to the petitions mentioned online.

Is there anything on some of these others that proves this is the same Susan Lindauer? The mosely-braun stuff, for example? Gotta nail that stuff down."


This I do not know. She is 41 years old. This would make her around 26/28 years old when the attempt was made upon the former President Bush. That is the time frame I would like to know who she worked for and where she had access to give Saddam INTEL.

[Grampa Dave]

I bet this is another left winger who was paid off by the Oil for Food Program in Iraq under the great UN money laundering machine.

[OXENinFLA]

What do you all think?

I think CMB just went out and purchased a new shredder.

[RandallFlagg]

Wow, this could be big. Hey Rush, Hannity, Savage et al., lookey here!

Private emailing Rush now...

[Bogey78O]

I found this in a yahoo groups post from the 90s. Wyden, Ron Rep. (U.S. Representative (D-OR), c. 1994) Spoke against tobacco industry on ABC's "Day One" program. Appeared with Rep. Henry Waxman at press conference 4/94, said he would press to have the ingredients of cigarettes made public (Reuters 4/5/94). Wyden is a strong critic of the tobacco industry (DJ 7/25/94). Ron Wyden's chief of staff (1994) is: Josh Kardon (DJ 7/25/94). Contact (1994): Susan Lindauer 202-225-4811. Wonder if they're connected? http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache:OCwcIbbft7YJ:health.groups.yahoo.com/group/bancigs/message/849+Susan+Lindauer+congressional+staffer%5D&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 per mediaresearch.com Three West Coast Democrats have tapped media veterans to fill Press Secretary slots in their Capitol Hill offices, Roll Call reported. Oregon's Peter DeFazio chose Susan Lindauer, a reporter for U.S. News & World Report in 1990-91 Not sure if this is all the same Susan Lindauer but it is interesting.

[Ditto]

Text of the formal charges here. It looks like they nailed her real good.

[xzins]

I agree that it appears to be obvious.

But, they need multiple confirmations to go live with some things.....I'd bet that this will fall into that category.

[Walkingfeather]

Okay some one needs to do a lexus nexus search on Mosely brown and quote all of the things she said against the iraqi war. We got her by the ...short curlys

[Grampa Dave]

FR indexers, you might want to index this one.

This could be the tip of the iceberg of stuff like this America. Bad stuff funded by the UN Oil for Food, money laundery machine used by Uncle $oddomite.

[Just mythoughts]

"FOX is all over it with swooshes and Alerts and stuff. They just mentioned she may have been part of a plot to kill the Prez. This ain't gonna go away. The media can't quell it's thirst for blood Dem or Rep. There's blood in the water and the sharks are hungry."


Yes, I have FOX on. What they have not told and they of all people could find out is who she was working for back in 1991/1992. This person had to have access to give/sell in order to be connected to any kind of plot.

I just wish they would research this stuff and stop waiting for someone to spoon feed them the DATA that they get paid for trumpeting.

[wingster]

I came in here thinking this was another Billary thread...

[SierraWasp]

"Mentioning this on FOX News now!"

They may be reporting, but I've already decided!!!

[jtminton]

Part of me is shocked. Sadly, part of me is not.

[texasbluebell]

Well, I can't wait to see who else she implicates once she starts spilling the beans.

[AmericanInTokyo]

From the September 1993 MediaWatch

Revolving Door

Democrat to Democrat to...

When it came time for the National Public Radio (NPR) board to choose a new President, they stuck with tradition. They chose a Democratic operative: Delano Lewis, long time associate of former District of Columbia Mayor Mar-ion Barry. Lewis replaces Carter official Douglas Bennet, who has joined the Clinton Administration as an Assistant Secretary of State. Bennet had taken over in 1983 for Frank Mankiewicz, a veteran of George McGovern's presidential campaign.

Congressional Assignments

Three West Coast Democrats have tapped media veterans to fill Press Secretary slots in their Capitol Hill offices, Roll Call reported. Oregon's Peter DeFazio chose Susan Lindauer, a reporter for U.S. News & World Report in 1990-91..California's Robert Matsui decided upon Carri Ziegler, a former Los Angeles Times reporter. Ziegler told MediaWatch that she's been out of journalism for a few years, but was with UPI briefly in 1985 following a couple of years at the Times....Norman Mineta, also from California, signed-up Emil Guillermo, weekend co-host of National Public Radio's All Things Considered from 1989 to 1991. Guillermo spent six years in the '80s as a reporter for KRON-TV, San Francisco's NBC affiliate.