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US Army’s first trans officer has been released from house arrest without contract after she was charged with conspiring with her wife to pass military secrets to Russia.
Major Jamie Lee Henry, 39, and Johns Hopkins physician Anna Gabrielian, 36, were charged with using their secret security clearance at Fort Bragg in North Carolina to steal the data from the base’s hospital, according to the Justice Department.
The pair are now both back home, with Gabrielian released on a $500,000 unsecured bond.
A Maryland court has ordered that they be released while being monitored 24/7.
The court also ruled that Henry could be sentenced to psychiatric or medical treatment.
The Rockville couple had met in August with an undercover FBI agent, who they say was from the Russian embassy, to deliver files that the Kremlin could “exploit.”
Major Jamie Lee Henry (left) and her wife, Anna Gabrielian, were released under house arrest after trying to give Russia medical information about military officers
Henry, the Army’s first trans officer, and her wife were charged Thursday for trying to pass medical records of senior military officers and their families to the Russian government in an FBI operation.
dr. Anna Gabrielian, an anesthesiologist at Johns Hopkins, said her actions were fueled by her patriotism to Russia as she tried to hand over files the Kremlin could “exploit.”
The couple is monitored 24/7 from their home in Rockville, Maryland
As part of their release, Henry and Gabrielian were ordered to surrender their passports and refrain from possessing any firearms or weapons.
A 5-mile perimeter has also been set up around the couple’s home, where alarms are triggered if they break the state of their confinement.
Lawyers for the couple did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment.
According to the indictment, opened Thursday, Gabrielian said she was motivated by her patriotism toward Russia, with Henry using her permission as a staff intern to secure the files of the officers and their families.
It is unclear why Gabrielian felt patriotic towards Russia and whether she has family ties to the country.
Fort Bragg is one of the most populous military installations in the world and is home to approximately 52,000 active duty soldiers. The base is home to the Delta Force and the United States Army’s Special Operations Forces.
“My stance is that until the United States actually declares war on Russia, I’ll be able to help as much as I want,” Henry reportedly told the undercover agent when they met in August to seal the deal. “At that point, I have some ethical issues to resolve.”
“You will resolve those ethical issues,” Gabrielian is said to have replied, adding that Henry was a “coward” for fear of breaking HIPPA.
Gabrielian, an instructor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at Hopkins, told the undercover cop on Aug. 17 that “she was motivated by patriotism toward Russia to give Russia all the help she could, even if it meant being fired or sent to prison.” had to go to prison.’
Gabrielian’s Johns Hopkins profile shows she speaks Russian and received her medical degree from the University of Pittsburg School of Medicine in 2012.
She married Henry in 2015, the same year the major came out as transgender.
Henry allegedly used her permission as an internist at Fort Bragg (pictured) to steal medical records from patients at the base’s hospital
Gabrielian allegedly told the officer that Henry not only had access to medical information at the military base, but also had insight into how America trained the military to provide aid to Ukraine.
During that meeting, Henry is said to have told the agent that she had tried to enlist to fight for Russia against Ukraine.
‘Henry explained to the’ [undercover agent that they were] determined to help Russia, and he had considered joining the Russian army voluntarily after the conflict in Ukraine started, but Russia wanted people with ‘combat experience’ and had none,” the indictment said.
Henry further stated, ‘The way I look at what’s going on in Ukraine right now is that the United States is using Ukrainians as a proxy for its own hatred of Russia,’ the indictment document alleged.
On August 31, Gabrielian met an agent at a hotel in Gaithersburg, Maryland, where he handed over medical records from a husband of a service member in the Office of Naval Intelligence and from a relative of an Air Force veteran.
‘Gabriel marked at the [undercover agent] a medical problem that is reflected in the records of [the military member’s spouse] that Russia could exploit,” the indictment reads.
At the Aug. 31 meeting, according to the indictment, Henry also handed over medical information about five patients at Fort Bragg, including those of a retired Army officer, a Department of Defense employee, and spouses of active and deceased veterans.
Henry (left) attended a Pride event in 2015 after becoming the Army’s first trans officer
Henry has been treating US military personnel as a physician and internist for 17 years
The couple would also have spoken with the agent about emergency plans for their family if the surgery came to light.
Gabrielian proposed a cover for their interactions, and a plan for Gabrielian and Henry’s children to quickly flee the US if Gabrielian and Henry acted in a way that would expose their communications and actions to the US government. charge.
The anesthetist is said to have told the officer to help their children “get a nice flight to Turkey to go on holiday because I don’t want to end up in jail here with my children being held hostage over my head.”
The pair were eventually charged with conspiracy and wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information.
They could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted on both charges.
In a statement, a Johns Hopkins spokesperson said: “We were shocked to hear this news this morning and plan to cooperate fully with investigators.”
Representatives from the military and the Department of Justice did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment.
In 2015, Henry . was reported to be the first known active-duty army officer to come out as transgender.
In May 2015, the military granted Henry’s request to officially change her name and gender, with the military using feminine pronouns in its files.
It was a first for the military, which has long maintained that being transgender or diagnosed with gender dysphoria is incompatible with the military and grounds for dismissal.
Henry joined ROTC at age 17 and has treated service associates as a physician and internist for 17 years since her first rotation with Walter Reed.
The major had previously touted the military and its leadership for accepting her identity as a transgender woman.
“My commander said, ‘I don’t care who you love, I don’t care how you identify, I want you to be healthy and I want you to be able to do your job,'” Henry told Buzzfeed.
“I was blown away… because of the stereotypes I had, growing up in the South, growing up in a fundamentalist Christian family, that he would automatically think I was a freak, he would automatically think, ‘You should just be fired like the reg recommend.”