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The wife of a former Navy nuclear engineer from Annapolis admitted to helping her husband sell government secrets.

Jonathan and Diana Toebbe planned for years to sell classified materials about submarine technology to a foreign government and were seeking as much as $5 million, the prosecution said in court.

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Fbi agent. nbc's ken dilanian joins me now. what's 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 what's called in the spy world a dead drop or multiple dead drops where he placed a memory card in ...

What was this couple actually trying to sell? >> yeah, yasmin. the complaint says they were trying to provide and they did provide blueprints for the virginia class submarine, which is a nuclear-powered sub, armed with cruise missiles that incorporates the latest, according to the complaint, in stealth intelligence gathering and weapons system technology. now, these subs cost $3 billion each, and the designs of the nuclear reactors that power them are among the most closely guarded secrets in the u.s. military. this is the same technology that the u.s. is providing to australia, as part of tha...