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The US Army's First Trans Officer Is Alleged To Have Transferred Confidential Military Medical Records To Russia
The U.S. Army’s first transgender officer and his wife, Maryland doctor Anna Gabrielian, were indicted on conspiracy charges Wednesday for allegedly attempting to transfer confidential military medical information to Russia.
The pair are accused of stealing patient health files from Johns Hopkins and Fort Bragg and giving them to an individual they believed to be working for the Russian government. They aimed to show that they could access classified information and readily provide it to Moscow to demonstrate their allegiance, according to the indictment.
The Justice Department indictment refers to Henry as male, but in 2015, BuzzFeed News reported that Henry became the nation's first known active duty transgender active-duty U.S. Army officer, after the Army granted his request to change his name and gender.
Gabrielian also married Henry that same year. According to her Johns Hopkins online profile, she speaks fluent Russian.
Henry and Gabrielian met with an individual they believed was associated with the Russian government but who was really an undercover agent, the indictment said. The couple allegedly told the agent they could pass on medical records to Russia of U.S. military, military family members and other individuals.
Henry and Gabrielian both allegedly told the agent they were committed to helping Russia.
The indictment said Gabrielian had reached out to the Russian embassy offering help, and Henry had allegedly even tried to join the Russian military after the invasion started but was told Russia only wanted individuals who had combat experience, which Henry lacks.
The indictment said Henry holds a Secret-level security clearance, which allows access to information whose release would cause serious damage to national security.
According to the indictment, Gabrielian told the agent Henry was a more valuable source for Russia because Henry had information on how the U.S. military establishes army hospitals in war conditions and about previous training the U.S. military had provided to Ukrainian personnel.
During their first meeting in a hotel room, the Justice Department said Gabrielian told the agent that if anything were to happen to her and Henry, she wanted their children "to have a nice flight to Turkey to go on vacation because I don't want to end in jail here with my kids being hostages over my head."
Jamie Lee Henry is what we call a “useful idiot”, exactly the attitude held by Vladimir Lenin towards communist Russia sympathizers in the West. While Lenin and the Soviets held them in utter contempt they also viewed them as tools for dispensing communist Russian propaganda to other countries, thus infecting foreign cultures with their totalitarian tripe. After their mission was complete, they were no longer “useful.”
The Russians are well documented to have used many such useful idiots during the Cold War to foment political agitation in the West and distract the political leadership and populations in general from focusing on their misdeeds while attacking each other internally.
Much of the anti-Vietnam War movement was led and stoked by these types of agents, who provided cover for Communist Russian agendas by portraying them as benign and humanitarian, while characterizing their own country’s anti-Communist Russian efforts as malign and cruel. Both Lee Harvey Oswald and Jane Fonda would fall into this category, but there were many thousands or more in all facets of US society who sought to diminish the cruelties of Communist Russian states while incessantly pointing out the flaws of American society.
And why Henry would willingly join the military of a country that would actively discriminate against him, even going so far as to allow hate crimes to be committed against him for being trans, is baffling.
Most psychiatrists in Russia don't even know the term ‘transgender’ and don’t understand who trans women or trans men are.
In December 2016, Professor Yuri Shevchenko, the Head of Department of Child Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (Russian Medical Academy of Continuing Professional Education, Moscow) has appeared in court as an expert and claimed that “transsexuals are mentally ill and communication with them is harmful for children and can lead to shared psychotic disorder or schizophrenia”. As a result, the Moscow city court banned a trans woman from communicating with his child under 18 years.
National insurance plans in Russia do not cover trans-related hormonal therapy and operations, so the majority of trans people wishing to undergo these procedures do so at their own expense.
According to the authors of a Russian research paper Social and Clinical Psychiatry, Methodological challenges for standards of care for persons with gender identification disorders, there are 32 % persons with schizophrenia among transgender people.
Being trans in Russia basically means you’re on your own to treat your own conditions. It would be naive to believe that Russia would do anything to the advantage of transgender people.