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ANNAPOLIS, Maryland -- It's Oh-Dark-Thirty at the U.S. Naval Academy and the work day has begun even earlier than usual for the freshman class, known as plebes. The upperclassmen -- crusty old military veterans at 20 -- are racing through Bancroft Hall like avenging angels, banging on doors, yelling into megaphones and blasting out rock music.

A 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, the Justice Department said Sunday.