US navy engineer charged with trying to sell nuclear submarine secrets
by Associated Press in Washington from on (#5QJKX)
Jonathan Toebbe and wife arrested in West Virginia after nuclear engineer makes dead drop' to undercover FBI agent
A US navy nuclear engineer with access to military secrets has been charged with trying to pass information about the design of American nuclear-powered submarines to someone he thought was a representative of a foreign government - but who turned out to be an undercover FBI agent.
In a criminal complaint detailing espionage-related charges, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) said Jonathan Toebbe sold information for nearly a year to a contact he believed represented a foreign power. That country was not named in the court documents.
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