Maryland nuclear engineer and spouse arrested on espionage-related charges

Re:Maryland nuclear engineer and spouse arrested on espionag... by atatatat on Monday October 11, 2021 @12:21AM (#28824642)

Please share where if you recall.

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Re:Maryland nuclear engineer and spouse arrested on espionag... by asudosandwich on Monday October 11, 2021 @01:08AM (#28824874)

IIRC it was indicated as the motivation behind convicted spy Christopher John Boyce in the movie The Falcon and the Snowman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falcon_and_the_Snowman

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Re:Maryland nuclear engineer and spouse arrested on espionag... by perl4ever on Monday October 11, 2021 @12:22PM (#28830004)

Well, this is who I was thinking of. Apparently the motivation is disputed though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Fuchs

"In her 2020 book, Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs, Nancy Thorndike Greenspan concluded that "Fuchs sought 'the betterment of mankind' [when sharing secrets with the Soviets] ... because "his goal became to balance world power and to prevent nuclear blackmail" according to a New York Times review by the conservative historian Ronald Radosh. Radosh wrote that "this was a post facto justification. The reason Fuchs spied was simply that he was a Communist and a true believer in Stalin and the Soviet Union"."

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