Ex-Pratt Worker Allegedly Tried To Ship F-35 Files To Iran

The Hartford Courant (CT) ^ | January 13, 2014 | BRIAN DOWLING

[LurkedLongEnough]

Pratt & Whitney said Monday it is cooperating with authorities after federal agents arrested a former employee for trying to ship documents to Iran related to the U.S. military's Joint Strike Fighter aircraft.

The East Hartford defense contractor, the sole manufacturer of the aircraft's engine, declined to comment on how Mozaffar Khazaee, 59, slipped thousands of pages of documents, diagrams, blueprints and technical manuals out the door before he was laid off in August along with hundreds of other employees.

Federal authorities arrested Khazaee at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey on Thursday before he could board a plane bound for Frankfurt, Germany, to meet a connecting flight to Tehran, Iran, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Connecticut.

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Khazaee became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1991, according to the affidavit. He holds U.S. and Iranian passports and has traveled to Iran five times in the past seven years.

The shipment mainly contained documents related to military aircraft engines, including the F-35 Lightning II built by Lockheed Martin and what federal agents referred to as the J136 engine, which could refer to the F136 engine designed, though ultimately not built, by General Electric and Rolls-Royce for the F-35.

[Parmenio]

Hang him.

[BikerJoe]

Hey we NEED the world’s best and brightest, right? What’s a little collateral damage?

[gov_bean_ counter]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIuo0KIqD_E

[Uri’el-2012]

Mozaffar Khazaee

Amish ? NO !

Iranian ? YES

[Uri’el-2012]

He holds U.S. and Iranian passports and has traveled to Iran five times in the past seven years.

How does a foreign national from Iran
get a security clearance ??

[Pentagon Leatherneck]

Like this: "Khazaee became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1991, according to the affidavit." TC

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Why would a defense contractor hire an Iranian citizen ?

[FatherFig1o155]

Mozaffar Khazaee

Really? Really?

[Uri’el-2012]

Like this: "Khazaee became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1991, according to the affidavit." TC

How did he retain his Iranian citizenship and passport ?

Did he note that he was Iranian National on his form SR-86 ?

[LibLieSlayer]

No muzzies should be allowed to work in our defense department... we should not allow them in the country and should rescind any citizenship claims. They are not compatible with America... period.

[LibLieSlayer]

obama is one of THEM!

[353FMG]

The same way that a person with a questionable background and SS# gets to live in the White Hut and have access to the nuclear code.

Security clearances today do not seem to be what they once were.

Besides, this country has no secrets any longer, they have all been given away — so why the need for a security clearance?

[Uri’el-2012]

obama is one of THEM!

We do know that pRESIDENT Valerie Jarrett is an Iranian.

[LibLieSlayer]

Yes and obama has packed DHS, the CIA and the Defense Department with THEM too.

[diogenes ghost]

Too many posters have not thought this through.

For our enemies to attempt to build F-35s, they will have to bankrupt themselves. Then, if they did manage it, they would have a third rate POS aircraft that does nothing well.

What is not to like here?

[billakay]

The USA has no requirement to give up foreign citizenship when being naturalized. This is quite convenient for people like my wife (Russian citizen) who regularly travel back to their country of origin (no visa requirements, which I have to deal with it every time)...assuming that you don't have any intention of working a job requiring clearance.

However, this citizenship *should* have been declared on his clearance paperwork and *should* have raised red flags.

[rmlew]

Hang the traitor and the retard who gave a dual-citizen with loyalties to an enemy state a security clearance to work for a defense contractor. Pour encourager les autres.