# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jeffrey-alexander-sterling
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:08:53.079Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jeffrey-alexander-sterling"
name: "Jeffrey Alexander Sterling"
slug: "jeffrey-alexander-sterling"
description: "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 to journalist James Risen. Sterling claimed he was prosecuted as punishment for filing a race discrimination lawsuit against the CIA. The case was based on what the judge called \"very powerful circumstantial evidence.\" In May 2015, Sterling was sentenced to 3½ years in prison. 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. He was released from prison in January 2018."
tagline: "American CIA officer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jeffrey_Sterling_at_the_International_Journalism_Festival_2024_in_Perugia%2C_Italy_6_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "2000"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.49
  momentum:             3.965827338129496
  historical:           5.522574666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "جيفرى الكسندر ستيرلينج"
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    title: "جيفري ألكسندر ستيرلينغ"
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    title: "Jeffrey Sterling"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump