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US: Defense Contractor Tried to Smuggle F-35 Blueprints to Iran
ABC News ^ | Tuesday, January 14, 2014 | Lee Ferran

Posted on 01/14/2014 5:41:18 PM PST by kristinn

An engineer for a major American defense contractor tried to smuggle thousands of secret documents, including blueprints, on America's multi-billion-dollar F-35 stealth fighter to Iran in boxes labeled as "household goods," U.S. prosecutors say.

Mozaffar Khazaee, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen, was reportedly arrested late last week as he was attempting to travel to Germany and then on to Iran. Weeks earlier, Khazaee had arranged for a shipping company to take boxes containing "sensitive technical manuals, specification sheets, and other proprietary material" related to the F-35 and its engines to a contact in Iran, according to an affidavit filed by a Special Agent of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations.

The reams of documents were discovered in November when Customs officers inspected a truck shipment Khazaee had sent from Connecticut to California, which was intended to go on to Hamadan, Iran, the affidavit said. The 44 boxes, which had been described to the shipping company as containing "books and college-related items, two suitcases, a vacuum cleaner and some other items," actually held "thousands of pages contained in dozens of manuals/binders relating to the JSF [F-35 Joint Strike Fighter] program."

Court documents describe Khazaee as having worked as an engineer for several defense contractors, leaving his most recent employer last August. None of the contractors are identified in the court documents, but the latest employer, Company A, is described as a Connecticut-based contractor that produced the F-22 Raptor's F-119 engine.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events; US: California; US: Connecticut; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: blueprints; california; companya; connecticut; dualcitizen; europeanunion; f35; germany; iran; irancitizen; mozaffarkhazaee; nato; waronterror
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1 posted on 01/14/2014 5:41:18 PM PST by kristinn
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To: kristinn

Time to get the rope and make an example.

However, given the way Obama handles things like this, he will have the plans FED-EX’d to the Iranians as a goodwill gesture.


2 posted on 01/14/2014 5:43:38 PM PST by Dutch Boy
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To: kristinn

I see two immediate red flags here:
“Mozaffar”
and
“Khazaee”


3 posted on 01/14/2014 5:44:15 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: kristinn

He was here in Indiana also, and worked at Rolls Royce, who manufactures the lift fan system.


4 posted on 01/14/2014 5:46:28 PM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: kristinn

It’s a good thing there are still a few honest people working in Customs. Now, I suppose Obama will have to tell John Kerry to take this stuff over in his diplomatic luggage.


5 posted on 01/14/2014 5:46:51 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: kristinn

A dual citizenship person is working on this? When one of them is Iranian?

Ah well, the Chinese almost certainly have it so why shouldn’t everyone else.


6 posted on 01/14/2014 5:47:49 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: kristinn

kill him.


7 posted on 01/14/2014 5:47:57 PM PST by RC one
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To: kristinn
Court documents describe Khazaee as having worked as an engineer for several defense contractors.

*Sigh*
8 posted on 01/14/2014 5:51:42 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: RC one

Won’t happen with the current regime ! Almost 30 years after the Shah of Iran was run out of office ! Thanks to Jimmy Carter !

> kill him.


9 posted on 01/14/2014 5:52:12 PM PST by CORedneck
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To: kristinn

Once found guilty, give him a firing squad.


10 posted on 01/14/2014 5:53:14 PM PST by Ray76
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To: driftdiver

Time to outlaw dual citizenship.


11 posted on 01/14/2014 5:54:03 PM PST by SecondAmendment (Restoring our Republic at 9.8357x10^8 FPS)
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To: SecondAmendment

When I was in working on this stuff they went to my birth hospital and checked my fingerprints and footprints on the birth records. Then they verified my parents.


12 posted on 01/14/2014 5:55:43 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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"A dual citizenship person is working on this? When one of them is Iranian?"

No kidding. WTF???

13 posted on 01/14/2014 5:58:40 PM PST by gettinolder
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“Mozaffar Khazaee, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen...”

Really? Seriously. Really? What freakin’ genius allows dual U.S.-Iranian citizens to work on highly classified, cutting edge military technology? In fact, just what the hell is a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen, anyway?

We are so far down the rabbit hole, we’ll never find our way out.

This is absolutely nuts.


14 posted on 01/14/2014 5:59:59 PM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2016; I pray we make it that long.)
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To: gettinolder

The next question is who was the idiot who granted this guy a security clearance, and who was he security manager at all the places he stole data from?


15 posted on 01/14/2014 6:02:49 PM PST by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: Dutch Boy
However, given the way Obama handles things like this, he will have the plans FED-EX’d to the Iranians as a goodwill gesture.

I am so cynical of the Obungler administration, I have no doubt they would do exactly that. The treacherous bast---s.

16 posted on 01/14/2014 6:03:42 PM PST by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Veteran, 70-71a)
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To: gettinolder

The next question is who was the idiot who granted this guy a security clearance, and who was he security manager at all the places he stole data from? Nice work, Pratt and Whitney.


17 posted on 01/14/2014 6:04:15 PM PST by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: PubliusMM

Just a little more paranoia and I could believe our government was helping him.


18 posted on 01/14/2014 6:04:52 PM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: driftdiver

A good Background Investigation should have prevented this guy’s employment.

Oh I forgot, they probably aren’t permitted to ask a person’s ethnicity.

In my days in LE, 50-60 years ago, I never heard of a dual citizen. Is this a new phenomenon?


19 posted on 01/14/2014 6:05:07 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: rockrr

Yep, it’s a joke name.


20 posted on 01/14/2014 6:05:54 PM PST by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day.)
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