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All right. this is quite a story. a year-long undercover fbi operation has led to the arrest of a u.s. navy nuclear engineer and his wife for attempting to sell nuclear submarine information to a foreign country in exchange for cryptocurrency. this engineer, former navy, i should say, was allegedly trying to sell some of america's most restricted sub technology. david sanger. as i said, david, this is quite a story. who is this guy? who is this couple? what were they trying to sell and to whom? >> there it really is a wild story, john. the engineer's name is jonathan

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...

Largest provider network. ♪ wow! ♪ ♪ uh-huh. ♪ most plans even have a $0 premium. so go ahead. take advantage now. ♪ wow! ♪ a developing story that reads like something out of a spy novel. a u.s. navy nuclear engineer and his wife accused of trying to sell secrets to a foreign spy who turned out to be an undercover fbi agent. the details of how they allegedly tried to do it are comical. cnn's jessica schneider is live in washington with the details on this fbi sting.

Jail. authorities say the department is going to do an internal investigation. a lot of questions, our team is going to keep digging inbocludi what is the police policy here when somebody says they have a disability. >> and when they ask for that so-called white shirt, too. laura jarrett, so glad you're staying on it, thank you. a year long undercover fbi operation has led to the arrest of a u.s. navy nuclear engineer and his wife for allegedly attempting to sell u.s. nuclear secrets to a foreign country in exchange for cryptocurrency. cnn pentagon correspondent oren liebermann joining us no...

$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...