![]() ![]() In bill of indictment issued against Hitselberger by the US Attorney General, the US government said that it was conceding that "the defendant. In a secure, non-public area of the Archives, agents also discovered two other documents marked 'SECRET'." In an area open to the public, the agents found a classified document titled Bahrain Situation Update dated February 13, 2012. "Agents visited the Hoover Archives and reviewed the collection. ![]() It notably includes political posters and leaflets that he gathered in pre-revolutionary Iran.īut the NCIS have ascertained that Hoover's Hitselberger Collection also contained classified records that he had contributed. Hitselberger had donated many of his most valuable documentary discoveries over the years to the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, which actually maintains a James F. His living quarters in Bahrain, in which a classified document was allegedly found last April, were "extremely cluttered and contained hundreds of newspapers and numerous books". While at the University of Texas in Austin during the 1990s, he was said to have been "working on an open-ended Ph.D. Hitselberger is to be a "peripatetic collector" of rare documents. Proceedings against Hitselberger are being described as "unique" given the circumstances he was said to be found possessing the classified documents. He was arrested last month in Kuwait, after the government there agreed to expel him and repatriate him to the US following an order from Washington to 'suspend' his passport. Robinson's file who is presiding over Hitselberger's case. MaltaToday is informed that the US government had asked Malta - and other governments - to arrest and extradite Hitselberger, but refused to do so because the charges he faces are "political".Ī Note Verbale in this sense was registered in Washington DC Judge Deborah A. Instead, however, he travelled to Malta and other countries, including Britain, Sweden, Bulgaria and Germany. Last April Hitselberger was dismissed from his post in Bahrain and was expected to return to the United States. Hitselberger, an experienced Navy Arabic translator, charged under the US Espionage Act, but is not suspected of espionage. The Maltese government has reportedly refused a request by the US to have a Navy linguist arrested and extradited to Washington to face charges related to possession of classified defence documents, on the basis that the charges were "political".Īgents from the United States Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) made their request as they probed an alleged trip to Malta by US Navy linguist James F. ![]()
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