{"id":20169,"date":"2021-10-10T16:53:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T20:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=20169"},"modified":"2021-10-10T16:53:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T20:53:11","slug":"us-couple-accused-of-selling-nuclear-submarine-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2021\/10\/10\/us-couple-accused-of-selling-nuclear-submarine-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"US couple accused of selling nuclear submarine secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A US navy nuclear engineer and his wife have been charged with trying to sell nuclear secrets to what they thought was a foreign state.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Jonathan Toebbe and his wife Diana were arrested in West Virginia on Saturday, the Justice Department announced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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They allegedly tried to sell nuclear submarine design data, hidden in a peanut butter sandwich, to someone they thought represented another country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In fact, it was an undercover FBI agent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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According to the statement<\/a>, Mr Toebbe and his partner – 42 and 45 respectively – have now been charged under the Atomic Energy Act.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Toebbe worked in the US Navy’s nuclear propulsion programme and had national security clearance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Justice Department said that in April 2020 he sent a package to a foreign government containing restricted data and a message suggesting a covert relationship, so that they could buy more data from him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He then allegedly began writing to an individual by encrypted email. While he thought this person represented the foreign government, they were actually an FBI agent, the affidavit said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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