Posted on 03/16/2022 5:47:35 AM PDT by Red Badger
Disgraced naval engineer Jonathan Toebbe and his wife, Diana, had tried to sell U.S. nuclear secrets to Brazil in 2020
The identity of the nation the couple had tried to sell classified information had been previously concealed by federal officials
Analysts allege Brazil was an 'odd choice' given how close the nations were after Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro strengthened the nations' alliance
The Toebbes allegedly selected Brazil because they thought the nation would be interested in the technology and could afford their prices
They also thought the nation wasn't 'overly hostile' towards the U.S., noting that selling secrets to adversaries, like Russia or China, was immoral
Toebbe pleaded guilty to conspiring to pass classified information to a foreign government, causing 'injury to the United States'
Diana still denies the charges against the couple and has pleaded not guilty
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A disgraced Navy nuclear engineer and his wife facing a combined 20 years in prison for to trying to sell secrets about American nuclear-powered warships approached Brazil with the classified information, it has been revealed.
Jonathan Toebbe, 43, and his Trump-hating teacher wife, Diana, were arrested last October after prosecutors said he approached a foreign government in an attempt to provide the nation with thousands of pages of stolen classified documents about the nuclear reactors that power the U.S. submarine fleet.
The identity of the foreign power had been concealed by federal prosecutors. It was widely speculated to have been France after investigators revealed the Toebbes had contacted a friendly foreign power, rather than an adversary.
However, a senior Brazilian official and others familiar with the investigation have since confirmed Toebbe approached their government during April 2020, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
You really can’t go wrong with that approach. The sooner, the better, too.
she’s the wind beneath her hubby’s wings.
Both of these folk to the big prison!
Hang them.
5.56mm
“As soon as I saw “The FBI” in the headline, I added a few grains of salt to the story.”
As much as I hate the FBI for the usual reasons, as far as I’m concerned, when a person has a Top Secret, the FBI should be free to sting and even try entrapping. This is far different than what happened with the Michigan Governor.
SPJNK.
Another TDS Karen who belongs in the hole.
That chick has no neck.
As a designer of these machines, he and his wife should have been shot for treason!
You obviously haven’t been paying attention. Brazil is the local ten ton gorilla power of South America and they have been working on getting nuclear subs to defend their interests for the last couple decades.
“They also thought the nation wasn’t ‘overly hostile’ towards the U.S., noting that selling secrets to adversaries, like Russia or China, was immoral”
Oh, well since they were moral about it, we can give them a blindfold and a cigarette before we execute them.
“Maybe we should ban anti-Americans from our military.”
Pretty sure he’s a civilian employee of the Navy.
They both should have been executed the day they were found guilty.
I’ve had “Confidential” “secret” and “Q” clearances. I have had to read and transmogrify these documents to my bosses who were waiting for clearances. (Takes a while). I know things you shouldn’t know but for the life of me I don’t know what they are.
With no details on how this was brought to the FBI. Assuming Brazil was trying to attain the technology is a bit presumptive.
Failed to read the article, did we? From the body of the article:
“And despite the Brazilian government being keen to develop its own military technology, the country’s officials were in no mood to steal American secrets.
The Toebbes’ plot quickly unraveled after officials there contacted the FBI, who then posed as their South American counterparts and devised a sting. “
The Brazilians themselves turned them in.
Good!
Twenty years for being a traitor? Where’s the yardarm...
As you can see I'm not the first and acronymfinder is no help. Whatever it is it hasn't caught on yet but I see I may have given Nancy the idea for fencing off the Capitol. Sigh.
;-)
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