Shaaban (naturalized U.S. citizen accused of being an Iraq agent): trained by USSR in the 70's?

The article "U.S.: Russia trained Greenfield man to spy" has a great deal of info on his background:

A Greenfield truck driver accused of offering to sell the names of U.S. intelligence agents to the Iraqi government received espionage training in Russia about 30 years ago, authorities say.

Court documents released Friday in the case of Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban also reveal that the Jordanian native had five passports and used several Social Security numbers...

In 1972, he lived in Moscow and married his first wife, Svetlana Anatolevna Shaban. It's unclear whether they were divorced.

During his stay in Moscow, the federal government says, Shaaban received training from Russian intelligence agents. The documents do not detail what kind of training. Authorities refused to elaborate...

In 2003 and 2004, he worked for Greenfield-based Novelty Inc., which manufactures and distributes toys and trinkets. For some of the time that Shaaban drove for Novelty, the firm's "Iraq's 52 Most Wanted Playing Cards" were a hot seller, company attorney Jeanne Hamilton said...

Previous report here.

Immigration_terror · Tue, 03/08/2005 - 21:57 · · Importance: 1