Re:Navy nuclear engineer and wife arrested for trying to sel...
by qwertyuiop_ on Sunday October 10, 2021 @07:31PM
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Because they don’t want to say CHINA
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Re:Navy nuclear engineer and wife arrested for trying to sel...
by WastingMyTime89 on Sunday October 10, 2021 @08:15PM
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It seems unlikely. Reading the court paperwork it seems the FBI knew this was happening because COUNTRY1 told them.
Re:Navy nuclear engineer and wife arrested for trying to sel...
by ltbarcly3 on Sunday October 10, 2021 @08:35PM
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There were many cases during the cold war of Russia turning in Americans who approached them with secrets, and probably vice versa.
There is too much of a risk that it is a counterintelligence operation to pass false information or uncover how they run their assets. A good source of intelligence is someone who is compromised (sex, debt, relatives overseas who can be threatened, etc) and can be blackmailed but smart and competent otherwise. Some idiot who walks into a foreign embassy saying they want to sell secrets will last about a week.