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State Dept Employee With Top Secret Security Clearance Arrested For Lying About Contact With Foreign Agents

By: Joshua Yasmeh A State Department employee from the Caucasus Affairs office has been arrested and charged “with obstructing an official proceeding and making false statements to the FBI, both felony offenses, for allegedly concealing numerous contacts that she had over a period of years with foreign intelligence agents,” according to a statement released by the Department of Justice’s Office of Public Affairs. “Candace Marie Claiborne is a U.S. State Department employee who possesses a Top Secret security clearance and allegedly failed to report her contacts with Chinese foreign intelligence agents who provided her with thousands of dollars of gifts… View Article