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Mix of spying and diplomacy that goes on. and so he did come close. >> i guess that, you know, the fact it did happen that way gives you -- may have happened that way gives you a little bit of hope. some of these details you cant ignore that make the story more fascinating, specifically, that there was this sd card hidden in a peanut butter sandwich. >> right. so he was talked into by the fbi undercover to do a series of what spies call dead drops, meaning leave something in a place where someon...

Used by mr. toebbe and his wife and some really sloppy ones. so in their communications back and forth to this foreign government, and it looks like the foreign government immediately handed the package of frgz over to a legal affairs officer at a u.s. embassy someplace. they communicated with what they thought was the foreign government. it turned out they were communicating with an undercover fbi agent. they had elaborate systems to get money through cryptocurrencies. they were trying to make ...

Seals. they allegedly conducted two more dead drops. the final one in august with a memory card in a chewing gum package that allegedly contained schematic designs for the submarine. the fbi says jonathan has been a navy employee since 2012. he worked at a lab where he maintained a top security clearance. his wife acted as a lookout for her husband during the dead drops. in one of his messages, jonathan toby allegedly wrote he was extremely careful to gather the files i possess slowly and natura...

Jessica schneider, thank you for all of that. lets discuss now with the former deputy director with the fbi, andrew mccabe. were joking because the peanut butter sandwich makes it pink panther like quality. but this is deadly serious. these are nuclear secrets that allegedly this nuclear submarine scientist was trying to pass and so just share with us the cloak and dagger stuff of how the fbi would even begin to crack this case? >> sure. so just to touch on that last point that you just made, ...

Following this for us. we dont know whether this is james bond stuff or pink panther. which is it. >> reporter: i think it is all of the above. they did not reveal crunchy or creamy. so im story about that. but the details get more fiction, not only did this engineer allegedly pass along classified information tucked inside of a peanut butter sandwich, but also in subsequent dead drops as their called, these sd cards were also hidden in a sealed band aid wrapper and a chewing gum package. so thi...

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Lookout during these dead drops in rural areas. he entrusted the details of the operation to her, they say that explicitly in this criminal complaint. so shes on the hook for all these very serious charges. >> are we likely to learn more about this or is this the kind of case where we know as mucher was going to find out? >> i suspect thats how it would unfold. if there is a plea agreement, which you would expect in a case like this, were not going to hear more about this. >> so were stuck with ...

Arent vaccinated. that might change in the next couple of weeks. even that changes youll still have kids under 5 not vaccinated. can they take this pill? >> no. this study was done on a group of adults. children and pregnant women those were populations not included. children, adolescents and pregnant women. youre talking about an incredible vulnerable population because they wont be vaccinated and pregnant women are not getting vaccinated at the rates we would like. i would suspect thats down t...

Fbi agent. nbcs ken dilanian joins me now. whats more intriguing about this case, the broad strokes of it, or the details of how it happened here and how the fbi cost these folks? >> because of the way this unfolded, we have far more detail than ordinarily in a spy case. they were talking to jonathan toebbe and he was laying out the extraordinary nature of his crime, saying he had been secretly gathering this information for years. they paid him $100,000 in cryptocurrency and induced him to do w...

Bureau obtained a package of materials sent to officials in an un-named third country. that suggests the country was a friend rather than an adversary. according to that complaint, the fbi began communicating with the couple, posing as a foreign intelligence service interested in paying them for defense secrets. the fbi convinced them to leave digital memory cards with sensitive data in remote locations in what are known in the spy world as dead drops. in one of the dead drops, as you mentioned,...