In 1997, Nada Prouty, who was two years into her second marriage, this one to former U.S. Marine Andrew Alley, who had served in the first Gulf War, got a job as an FBI agent. After completing her training, Prouty (then known as Nada Alley) was assigned to the Washington Field Office and assigned to investigate crimes against Americans overseas — crimes like those committed by terrorists — although the Justice Department insists she was not assigned to investigate any cases involving Hezbollah.
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While at the FBI, Prouty used her top secret security clearance to access files about her sisters, her terror financier brother-in-law, and an investigation of Hezbollah being conducted out of the FBI's Detroit Field Office.
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Prouty changed husbands again and changed jobs. She married a U.S. State Department foreign service officer named Gordon Prouty, a Middle East specialist who had recently returned from a tour of duty in Islamabad, Pakistan. She also went to work for the CIA as an operations officer. After finishing her spy training at the secret CIA school called "The Farm," Prouty was assigned to Baghdad, where, as a native Arabic speaker, she helped interrogate high-value terrorists.
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Earlier this month, Prouty resigned from the CIA and pleaded guilty to obtaining her U.S. citizenship by fraud, illegally accessing classified national security files, and conspiracy to defraud the United States. Although she faces up to 10 years in prison, because of her plea agreement with the Justice Department, she will likely spend less than a year behind bars. As part of her sentence, Prouty will also be stripped of her citizenship, but because she knows so much about the United States' counter-terrorism capabilities, the government will not deport her.
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