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The FBI recovered a data card, ‘placed between two slices of bread on a half of a peanut butter sandwich,’ containing details of Virginia-class nuclear submarine reactors
The word combination of "nuclear" and "sold" is rarely comforting. A nuclear engineer allegedly sold submarine secrets to what he believed was a representative for a "foreign power." That other person was actually an undercover FBI agent, according to The U.S. Department of Justice.
An Annapolis, Maryland couple was arrested Saturday by the FBI and NCIS on espionage-related charges, federal authorities say.
An Annapolis, Maryland couple was arrested Saturday by the FBI and NCIS on espionage-related charges, federal authorities say.
A U.S. Navy nuclear engineer and his wife have been charged with selling secret information about nuclear submarines to an undercover FBI agent who posed as an operative for a foreign country, the Justice Department said on Sunday. Jonathan Toebbe and his wife, Diana, were arrested on Saturday in West Virginia and charged with violating the Atomic Energy Act, the Justice Department said in a statement. Toebbe, 42, a Navy nuclear engineer with top secret security clearance, sent a package of restricted data to an unidentified country in 2020 and later began selling secrets for tens of thousan...