What a numbskull
Where is this “co-conspirator”? This person needs to be arrested, and they BOTH need to be shot. Together.
So... were they “real” secrets or deliberately misleading secrets?
House of mirrors...
That's it in a nutshell.
Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart.
When I was working at Raytheon, at the “Missile Defense Center” in Woburn, Massachusetts, there was a guy working there who was contacted by an “Israeli” company that was making missile defense “Video Games” and they asked him to critique the games for “authenticity”. He was being paid as a consultant.
He lost his clearance and was fired. Conveying any such information, even unclassified technical information is an export under ITAR regulations. I learned about this incident in an unclassified security briefing, but I never did find out who the “Israeli” company really was. I suspect that the “Israeli” identity was an affiliation scam, like Bernie Madoff, preying on gullible Jewish investors, but in this case it’s likely the scammer wasn’t even “Israeli”.