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Following this for us. we don't 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 i'm 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 this u.s. navy nuclear engineer jonathan toby reached out to a foreign country in 2020, we don't know...

$100,000 over the course of the investigation. but the biggest mystery remains who did this nuclear engineer think he was selling these government secrets to? the fbi refers to it as country one in the records and that country alerted the fbi, which began its undercover investigation. toby and his wife will appear in federal court tomorrow, but prosecutors are asking they remain locked up. they're calling them a flight risk and say they could destroy evidence. >> thank you very much. let's get more on this. cnn counterterrorism, phil mud is joining us right now. used to work at the cia, the fb...

They're accused of tempting to asell classified information about nuclear submarines to a foreign government, how the high-tech subs are designed, how they operate and this all started when a u.s. navy nuclear engineer jonathan toby, reached out it a foreign country and offered to hand over government secrets about nuclear power warships in exchange for cryptocurrency. so they turned the offer over to the fbi and that began this month-long undercover operation. so toby went to three different spots between june and august of this past summer to drop off the information and he actually packaged...

Closely guarded submarine secrets inside a peanut butter sandwich. over the weekend, jonathan toby and his wife, diana, were arrested for attempting to sell classified information to a foreign government, alleging the couple used methods out of a spy novel to pass the information to an undercover fbi agent. after messening messagening wit months, they dropped the card -- placed between two slices of bread on a peanut butter sandwich. inside, performance characteristics of virginia class submarine reactors. they're some of the most advanced stealth submarines in the world, capable of staying un...

But also inside a sealed band-aid wrapper and chewing gum package. u.s. knave nuclear engineer jonathan toby reached out to a foreign country in 2020, don't know which one, and offered to hand over these government secrets about nuclear-powered warships in exchange for cryptocurrencies. that foreign currency turned the offer over to the fbi which began a months long undercover investigation so toby allegedly went to three different spots between june and august of this past summer to drop off the information but he was tracked by the fbi the whole time, and they were in constant communication ...