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US Navy Nuclear Engineer, Wife Charged by DOJ With Selling Nuclear Submarine Secrets
Epoch Times ^
| 10/10/2021
| Jack Phillips
Posted on 10/10/2021 8:27:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A U.S. Navy nuclear engineer was charged by the Department of Justice for allegedly selling secret information about nuclear submarines to an undercover agent who posed as an operative from a foreign country.
Jonathan Toebbe and his wife, Diana, were arrested on Oct. 9 in West Virginia, the Justice Department (DOJ) said on Oct. 10. They were charged with violating the Atomic Energy Act and will appear in a court in West Virginia on Oct. 12.
A statement from the agency said that Toebbe, 42, and his wife, 45, sold information “concerning the design of nuclear-powered warships to a person they believed was a representative of a foreign power.” According to the Justice Department, the person was actually an FBI agent.
“The complaint charges a plot to transmit information relating to the design of our nuclear submarines to a foreign nation,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. “The work of the FBI, Department of Justice prosecutors, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and the Department of Energy was critical in thwarting the plot charged in the complaint and taking this first step in bringing the perpetrators to justice.”
Toebbe is an employee with the Navy who served as an engineer and had an active national security clearance, giving him access to restricted data, according to the DOJ.
“Toebbe worked with and had access to information concerning naval nuclear propulsion including information related to military sensitive design elements, operating parameters, and performance characteristics of the reactors for nuclear-powered warships,” the statement reads.
Starting in 2020, he began selling secrets for tens of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency to an undercover agent and at one point hid a digital memory card containing documents in a peanut butter sandwich at a “dead drop” location in West Virginia, according to the Justice Department.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Maryland; US: Michigan; US: New York; US: Pennsylvania; US: West Virginia
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Too many traitors in our midst !!
To: SeekAndFind
BiXiden hates competition.
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posted on
10/10/2021 8:30:14 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
To: SeekAndFind
So he sold it all to an under cover FBI agent. Other articles on this subject indicate the FBI reached out to him and convinced him to do it. Entrapment?
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posted on
10/10/2021 8:31:01 PM PDT
by
realcleanguy
(quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
To: SeekAndFind
When politician get rich openly boasting about how they have stolen and given technology to our enemies for personal gain; why wouldn’t regular citizens think that they can’t do the same thing?
We need to dust off the charge of treason; and execute EVERY traitor in Congress, in all branches of federal, state and local governments and make hanging and firing squads a reality again
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posted on
10/10/2021 8:32:59 PM PDT
by
Hodar
(A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
To: SeekAndFind
so many traitors they are tripping over each other
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posted on
10/10/2021 8:33:42 PM PDT
by
elpadre
( ying them.)
To: SeekAndFind
Yeah? Well no FBI = no crime.
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posted on
10/10/2021 8:34:02 PM PDT
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: Seruzawa
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posted on
10/10/2021 8:36:27 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
To: SeekAndFind
at one point hid a digital memory card containing documents in a peanut butter sandwich at a “dead drop” location in West Virginia,
Sometimes you might want to just take a step back and say this isn't gonna work out.
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posted on
10/10/2021 8:38:31 PM PDT
by
eyedigress
(Trump is my President!)
To: realcleanguy
Other articles on this subject indicate the FBI reached out to him and convinced him to do it. Entrapment? Most likely the case. It isn't like he could go on a website and look for contacts in foreign governments who are looking for people willing to sell info. Short of him walking into an embassy ( like Walker did ), spies like this are usually approached by someone. So it looks like the FBI was fishing for people to see who would catch the bait.
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posted on
10/10/2021 8:44:15 PM PDT
by
TheCipher
(To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman. - Mark Twain)
To: SeekAndFind
Sounds a bit like the John A. Walker espionage ring. Remember them? Walker was a Navy CWO, and spy for the Soviet Union between 1967 - 1985. Supposedly the worst security breach to date. The New York Times reported in 1987 “is sometimes described as the most damaging Soviet spy ring in history.”
Well, that was 34 years ago, and the NYT is no longer considered trustworthy, and neither is the current DOJ. Will that same DOJ investigate high level bribe taking? A crime that may exceed anything ever even imagined by a US office holder? Enriching himself and his corrupt family by taking bribes from the CCP? I won’t hold my breath.
To: SeekAndFind
Update!
They’re Black Lives Matter supporters!
https://mobile.twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1447408351382413312
Cernovich
@Cernovich
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- Maryland couple, Navy nuclear engineer and his wife, are facing espionage-related charges.
- They attempted to sell nuclear secrets.
- Black Lives Matter sign is seen at their home.
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To: SeekAndFind
Go to her Twitter and FB page. Both are still up. America haters He is a Trump hater
How did they keep their security clearance?
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posted on
10/10/2021 9:15:01 PM PDT
by
setter
To: realcleanguy
Entrapment? Read her Twitter. She cannot stand the US.
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posted on
10/10/2021 9:17:40 PM PDT
by
setter
To: setter
how does milley keep his?
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posted on
10/10/2021 9:30:23 PM PDT
by
Bob434
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
10/10/2021 10:10:34 PM PDT
by
vpintheak
(Live free, or die!)
To: SeekAndFind
I don’t believe a single thing reported from the liars at FBI and DOJ. We have all seen the crimes they perpetrate to frame their political enemies. From the top down they are all a bunch of lying crooks.
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posted on
10/10/2021 10:26:44 PM PDT
by
Organic Panic
(Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
To: SeekAndFind
a peanut butter sandwich? a brilliant dead drop! I see those lying around everywhere...
highly sophisticated cat and mouse stuff..
oops the cat ate the mouse and the dog ate the peanut butter sandwich..
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posted on
10/10/2021 10:40:40 PM PDT
by
mylife
(Would you rather have Questions without answers? or Answers without questions?)
To: mylife
...and the dog ate the peanut butter sandwich..So, you stand around for a day or so. It will come out.
"Hey, man, what is this stuff?"
"It's Labrador."
"Labrador??"
"Yeah, my dog ate my stash..."
To: TheCipher; realcleanguy
Entrapment?The putative "buyer" begins by saying, "We only interested in perfectly legal information. We don't want you to break any laws. Just tell us generally what you know about nuclear subs - like what one might expect to find in a Wikipedia article."
Then, gradually, they tempt the mark into divulging more-sensitive info: "We don't understand this one aspect. It would really help if you could supply us with a diagram showing this. Of course: Nothing that couldn't be found in the Internet!"
Eventually, the mark admits that he'd have to break the law to obtain the needed info. So the "buyer" replies, "So you're saying that you're offering to break the law for us?"
BINGO!
It's no longer entrapment.
Regards,
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posted on
10/10/2021 10:51:30 PM PDT
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
10/11/2021 12:28:20 AM PDT
by
GOP Poet
(Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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