US jails former SA Air Force general for being a ‘secret foreign agent’

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Portia Anyamba, a former South African Air Force brigadier general connected to a State Security Agency official, was recently sentenced to six months in jail in the United States, where she worked at a government science and energy laboratory. She previously pleaded guilty to being a foreign agent and falsifying information while applying for security clearance.

Source: Daily Maverick.
 
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It seems that maybe Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the NSA take security clearance quite seriously. And the shenanigans which occur in SA are not so much tolerated over there. If you f-up and not reveal everything, they will bust you and they take their job seriously. I wonder which US government research lab will take her on now after she sits out her 6 months in jail? Under Trump, it's likely deportation time. Brigadier general or not.

Portia Anyamba, 59, also tried to get a US government security clearance but provided false information in the application process.

According to the US, she had been in contact with someone from this country’s State Security Agency (SSA), whereas in her security clearance application she stated that she had not had contact with representatives of a foreign government in the past seven years.
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Mirai said:
It seems that maybe Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the NSA take security clearance quite seriously. And the shenanigans which occur in SA are not so much tolerated over there. If you f-up and not reveal everything, they will bust you and they take their job seriously. I wonder which US government research lab will take her on now after she sits out her 6 months in jail? Under Trump, it's likely deportation time. Brigadier general or not.
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After this conviction? She would never get the security clearance needed to do this level of work in US.
 
At 6:30 in the morning I squinted at the title wrapped over two lines, and saw SA Air Force general Sergeant, which raises the question, is there much difference in the relative ranks these days? /s
 
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Espionage is as old as civilisation itself.
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No argument here. But my point was about how this stolen tech would have been used, no doubt we'd be churning out military grade products in a couple years and it would be Shanghai II here.
 
Surely after serving your time they would kick you out the country immediately.

"Anyamba was sentenced to serve six months’ imprisonment, to be followed by two years of supervised release. As a component of her sentence, she was also ordered to pay a $9,500 fine."
 
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