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Jeffrey Alexander Sterling

Jeffrey A. Sterling
Sterling at the International Journalism Festival in 2024
Born
Cape Girardeau, Missouri, U.S.[1]
NationalityAmerican
Alma materWashington University School of Law, 1992
Millikin University, 1989
Occupation(s)Fraud investigator (2004-his arrest in 2011)[2]
Lawyer (?-present)
Former undercover CIA officer (May 14, 1993-January 31, 2002)
Known forWhistleblower
SpouseHolly Sterling[3]

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 (covert operation to supply Iran with flawed nuclear warhead blueprints) to journalist James Risen.[2][4][5] Sterling claimed he was prosecuted as punishment for filing a race discrimination lawsuit against the CIA.[6] The case was based on what the judge called "very powerful circumstantial evidence."[7] In May 2015, Sterling was sentenced to 3½ years in prison.[8] In 2016 and 2017, he filed complaints and wrote letters regarding mistreatment, lack of medical treatment for life-threatening conditions, and false allegations against him by corrections officers leading to further punitive measures.[9] He was released from prison in January 2018. [10]

  1. ^ "Ex-CIA agent insists on innocence while his national security case is stuck in limbo". St. Louis Beacon. June 7, 2013. Archived from the original on July 20, 2013. Retrieved January 5, 2015. Jeffrey Sterling, born into a family of seven in Cape Girardeau, seemed to have made it. A top graduate of Millikin University and Washington University Law School, he then went to work as one of the few African-American CIA agents.
  2. ^ a b Chad Garrison (January 7, 2011). "Jeffrey Sterling: Indictment States Ex-Spy in Missouri Had Grudge with CIA, Leaked Secrets". The Riverfront Times blog. Archived from the original on January 6, 2015. Retrieved January 5, 2015. Jeffrey Sterling, a 43-year-old resident of O'Fallon, Missouri, who now works as a fraud investigator with the health benefits company WellPoint, was arraigned yesterday in federal court in St. Louis accused of leaking state secrets to the media.
  3. ^ "Defendant's Opposition to Government's Motion for Pretrial Detention" (PDF). Politico. January 21, 2011. Retrieved January 5, 2015. He has no criminal record whatsoever and is married to his wife Holly, who is a social worker. He lives modestly outside of Saint Louis, Missouri in O'Fallon. He owns his own home with his wife though it is mortgaged. Mr. Sterling is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis earning his JD in 1992.
  4. ^ Todd C. Frankel (January 23, 2011). "Life away from CIA still tangled, lonely for indicted ex-spy". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved January 5, 2015.
  5. ^ Isikoff, Michael (2011-01-06). "Ex-CIA Officer Charged with Leak to Reporter". NBC New York. Retrieved 2011-01-07.
  6. ^ Amy Goodman; Srećko Horvat; Ben Wizner; et al. (20 January 2023). "The Belmarsh Tribunal on Julian Assange, Press Freedom & More". Democracy Now!. Wikidata Q123090232.
  7. ^ Maass, Peter (18 June 2015). "How Jeffrey Sterling Took on the CIA — and Lost Everything". The Intercept. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
  8. ^ Matt Zapotosky (May 11, 2015). "Ex-CIA officer convicted in leak case sentenced to 3½ years in prison". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 11, 2015.
  9. ^ "Imprisoned Whistleblower 'Feared For His Life' After Threats From Guard". Shadowproof. 2017-04-29. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
  10. ^ Maass, Peter (January 19, 2018). "Jeffrey Sterling, Convicted of Leaking About Botched CIA Program, Has Been Released From Prison". The Intercept. Retrieved 2022-08-14.

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