Maryland Nuclear Engineer arrested...Sub Secrets

[sailingabe41ds]

Maryland Nuclear engineer and spouse arrested on espionage related charges trying to sell Submarine Secrets to foreign power DOJ announced. First, the collision and now this. What next...I hope the plans for my Jeanneau 41DS is safe!

Abe

[GordMay]

The couple was selling data to someone they thought was a representative of a foreign power, but was actually an undercover FBI agent.

According to a criminal complaint [1], nuclear engineer Jonathan Toebbe, who worked for the Navy, sold restricted information about the design of nuclear-powered warships. He did so with help from his wife, Diana, 45, according to the complaint [1].

Jonathan Toebbe placed restricted data in SD cards, and hid them in half a peanut butter sandwich, in a sealed Band-Aid wrapper, and in a chewing gum package, which he left at drop points in West Virginia, south-central Pennsylvania, and eastern Virginia, according to the criminal complaint [1].

[1] ➥ https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-re...40946/download

[goboatingnow]

Surely this stuff is on Google anyway

[GordMay]

Originally Posted by goboatingnow

Surely this stuff is on Google anyway

The, previously linked, criminal complaint specifies:
... 4 ...“Restricted Data” consists of “all data concerning (1) design, manufacture, or utilization of atomic weapons; (2) the production of special nuclear material; or (3) the use of special nuclear material in the production of energy,” but does not include data that has been declassified or removed from the Restricted Data category. 42 U.S.C. §2014(y)

And claimed that:
“... 7 ... the sender stated a desire to sell documents containing U.S. Navy
information marked CONFIDENTIAL that included printouts, digital media files containing technical details, operations manuals, and performance reports...
... 9 A subject-matter expert at the U.S. Navy with knowledge of the documents included in the package sent to COUNTRY I informed the FBI that these documents were U.S. Government documents that contained Restricted Data...”

So, presumably, “this stuff” would not be available through ‘Google’.

[Slowtack]

Isn't a "sub" a type of sandwich in the US?