Posted on 10/27/2005 6:43:10 PM PDT by dc27
HONOLULU - An engineer who calls himself the father of the technology that protects the B-2 stealth bomber from heat-seeking missiles has been arrested and accused of selling U.S. military secrets involving the aircraft to a foreign country, the FBI said. Noshir S. Gowadia, 61, of Haiku was arrested Wednesday.
According to the FBI, Gowadia in 2002 faxed a document detailing infrared technology classified top secret by the Air Force to a foreign official. He also provided classified information to two other countries, the FBI said.
The government would not identify the countries or disclose how much he allegedly received.
Gowadia was an engineer with Northrop Grumman Corp. from 1968 to 1986 and had helped design parts of the B-2's propulsion system that make the bomber difficult to be seen by enemy missiles. The technology remains highly classified.
He was jailed without bail on a charge of willfully communicating national defense information to a person not entitled to receive it, an offense punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
It was not immediately known whether he had a lawyer.
According to state records, Gowadia and his wife own an engineering and consulting company
Is he even a citizen?
You are so correct...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1508617/posts?page=26#26
Faxes to overseas phone numbers are really easy for the NSA to capture. They probably have a copy of every fax sent to China during the last 20 years.
A 10-year crime?
It will result in the deaths of thousands of Americans.
It is a case of murder.
China has been "buying" trade secrets for some time now. It happens quite often here in the Silicon Valley.
I guess that's one way to finance a house on Maui.
More here:
http://www.thehawaiichannel.com/news/5193747/detail.html
And:
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051027/NEWS21/510270351/1001
A guy gets to come and work here at a good salary then betrays us for money. I hope he rots in prison.
THAT"S IT! Invoke the War Powers Act and stand him in front of a firing squad without delay.
He did nothing more than was done by X42. What's the problem?
Hanged, not hung.
Once Father of Stealth,
Caught selling B-2 secrets.
Assumed not be seen.
Bull, He stole property and stole it. Capitalism and free trade have nothing to do with theft.
The United States learned about the Chinese theft of the W-88 Trident D-5 warhead information, as well as about the theft of information regarding several other thermonuclear weapons, in 1995. A “walk-in” approached the Central Intelligence Agency outside the PRC and provided an official PRC document classified “Secret” that contained specific design information on the W-88 Trident D-5, and technical information on other thermonuclear warheads. The CIA later determined that the “walk-in” was directed by the PRC intelligence services. Nonetheless, CIA and other Intelligence Community analysts that reviewed the document concluded that it contained U.S. warhead design information. The PRC has the infrastructure and technical ability to use elements of the stolen U.S. warhead design information in the PLA’s next generation of ther-monuclear weapons. If the PRC attempted to deploy an exact replica of the US W-88 Trident D-5 warhead, it would face considerable technical challenges. However, the PRC could build modern thermonuclear warheads based on stolen US design information, including the stolen W-88 design information, using processes similar to those developed or available in a modern aerospace or precision guided munitions industry.
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