Lebanese-"American" Nada Prouty infiltrates both the FBI and the CIA to spy for terror group Hezbollah
By Chuck Hustmyre
November 27, 2007
DETROIT (Crime Library) — Under normal circumstances, Nada Prouty could have easily represented the quintessential American immigrant success story. In 1989, Prouty came to the United States as a teenager on a student visa from her native Lebanon. During the next 10 years, she got married, finished her degree, was granted U.S. citizenship, earned a master's degree, and became an FBI agent. Four years later she went to work for the CIA.
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| Hezbollah Spy Nada Prouty |
But Prouty's circumstances weren't normal. She obtained her U.S. citizenship by fraud, she lied to get her super-sensitive government jobs, she hid her longstanding ties to terror financiers, and she illegally tapped into top secret national security computer files to access information about the Iranian-backed Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah.
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| Russian Spy Robert Hanssen |
Like those who came before her — Robert Hanssen at the FBI, Aldrich Ames at the CIA — Nada Prouty was a spy. Through guts, guile, and government incompetence, Prouty successfully infiltrated the United States' top two terror-fighting agencies. Unlike Hanssen and Ames, Prouty wasn't a spy for the Russians. She was a spy for terrorists.
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| Russian Spy Aldrich Ames |
A Path to Citizenship
In August 1990, after her one-year student visa expired, Prouty, then using her maiden name, Nada Nadim Al-Aouar, offered to pay an American citizen named Chris Deladurantaye several hundred dollars if he would marry her so she could stay in the United States. Deladurantaye, who had no job at the time and was living in a trailer with several of his buddies, agreed to the scam.
According to federal investigators, Prouty never lived with Deladurantaye, nor did the couple ever consummate their marriage.
In 1994, Prouty was granted U.S. citizenship. A year later she divorced her "husband." The two had not spoken or seen each other since they were married. Prouty even stiffed Deladurantaye out of the money she had promised him.
During the five years Prouty was "married" to Deladurantaye, she actually lived in a Detroit suburb with her sister Elfat El-Aouar (a slight variation of the family name). Living with them was another Lebanese woman named Samar Khalil Nabbou, who was married to Chris Deladurantaye's brother, Jean Paul Deladurantaye. The double marriage made Prouty and Nabbou sisters-in-law.
Like Prouty, Nabbou ditched her "husband" shortly after the United States government granted her citizenship. She then joined the U.S. Marine Corps, where she was commissioned as an officer. She married another Marine and now goes by the last name Spinelli. The Marines have declined to release any details about Nabbou other than to say she is stationed in Japan.
In September, the U.S Attorney's Office in Detroit announced the arrest of one of Prouty's sisters, Rula Nadim Al-Aouar, a suburban Detroit physician, for also obtaining her U.S. citizenship by fraud. According to prosecutors, in 1992 the future Dr. Al-Aouar, then an immigrant struggling to find a way to stay in the United States, paid a man employed as a restaurant dishwasher less than $1,000 to marry her.
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