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Podcast: IEN Radio
Episode: Listen: Engineer Guilty of Selling Secrets in Peanut Butter Sandwich
Description: On Monday, a 43-year-old Navy nuclear engineer pleaded guilty to espionage-related crimes. Jonathan Toebbe was caught trying to provide design data for nuclear-powered warships to a foreign national. Toebbe was arrested in October 2021 after he left an SD card at a "dead drop" in West Virginia. But more on that in a minute. Toebbe worked for the Department of the Navy as a nuclear engineer and was assigned to the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. He had security clearance that gave him access to “restricted data,” which pertains to any inform...