The former CIA director faces up to one year in prison.
Former CIA Director Gen. Davis Petraeus and Paula Broadwell pictured in 2011.
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Gen. David Petraeus, the former CIA Director, signed an agreement Monday in which he indicated he will plead guilty to one count of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material, the Department of Justice said.
The charge relates to allegations he leaked confidential information in 2011 to his biographer Paula Broadwell, with whom he was having an extra-martial affair.
Petraeus signed the plea agreement and a corresponding statement of facts, both of which have been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, DOJ spokesperson Marc Raimondi confirmed to BuzzFeed News.
The charge carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison.
The agreement means Petraeus, a four-star military commander who spearheaded the successful 2006 "surge" of U.S. forces in Iraq, will avoid an embarrassing trial over the Broadwell affair.
The pair's relationship came to light after Broadwell investigated by the FBI for allegedly cyberstalking and threatening a friend of Petraeus.
Broadwell, a former Army Reserve officer, had been writing a biography, All In: The Education of General David Petraeus, during their affair.
Petraeus, who was appointed to lead the CIA by President Obama in 2011, resigned his post shortly after the president's re-election in 2012.
SOURCE: BuzzFeed
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