Jeffrey Alexander Sterling
id:
jeffrey-alexander-sterling-171-55715
title:
Jeffrey Alexander Sterling
text:
Jeffrey Alexander Sterling is an American lawyer and former CIA employee who was arrested, charged, and convicted of violating the Espionage Act for revealing details about Operation Merlin to journalist James Risen. Sterling claimed he was prosecuted as punishment for filing a race discrimination lawsuit against the CIA. The case was based on what the judge called "very powerful circumstantial evidence." In May 2015, Sterling was sentenced to 3½ years in prison. In 2016 and 2017, he filed compl
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
American CIA officer and convict
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Alexander_Sterling
date created:
2011-01-08T00:49:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T08:16:25Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q6175821","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6175821"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Sterling_Photo.jpg","width":3944,"height":2317}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16