(AP) Larry Neumeister - Susan Lindauer, 41, a former journalist and one-time press secretary for four members of Congress, was arrested Thursday on charges she served as a paid agent for the Iraqi intelligence service before and after the U.S. invasion. According to an indictment filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Lindauer made multiple visits from October 1999 through March 2002 to the Iraqi Mission to the UN in Manhattan where she met with several members of the Iraqi Intelligence Service. The government said she accepted payments from the Iraqis for her services and expenses amounting to a total of $10,000, including $5,000 she received during a trip to Baghdad in February and March 2002, violating a law prohibiting transactions with a government that sponsors international terrorism. The indictment said she met on two occasions in Baltimore in June and July with an undercover FBI agent who posed as a Libyan intelligence representative who was seeking to support resistance groups in postwar Iraq. The indictment said she discussed the need for plans and foreign resources to support these groups.
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