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US Navy Engineer, Wife Arrested On Espionage Charges In Plot To Sell Nuclear Submarine Secrets To ‘Foreign Power’

FILE PHOTO: Crew members stand on the topside of the USS Illinois, the 13th ship of the Virginia class of submarines, in Groton, Connecticut, October 29, 2016 © Reuters / Michelle McLoughlin

From RT.com….

A Maryland nuclear engineer and his wife have been arrested and charged with espionage for trying to sell classified information on US nuclear submarines to a foreign power. Their scheme was foiled in an FBI sting operation.

Jonathan and Diana Toebbe, of Annapolis, Maryland, were arrested in Jefferson County, West Virginia, by the FBI and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service on Saturday, according to a Justice Department press release.

The pair are accused of selling “restricted data concerning the design of nuclear-powered warships” over the course of a year to a person they assumed was the representative of a foreign power. That person was, in fact, an undercover FBI agent.

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