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Who are Jonathan and Diana Toebbe? Spy couple who tried to sell nuclear secrets awarded 19 and 21 year sentence
November 10, 2022 By Awanish Kumar
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Brazilian leaders wanted to create their own military technology, but they refused to accept American secrets and instead called the FBI, according to the New York Times. The Toebbes' strategy quickly fell apart after federal agents planned a sting operation. Even still, it took over a year and a half from the time the Toebbes initially mailed their offer to the nation's military intelligence. Jonathan Toebbe was accused of hiding memory cards with top-secret information from authorities inside of things like peanut butter sandwiches, band-aid wrappers, and chewing gum wrappers.Former U.S. Navy engineer Jonathan Toebbe and his wife Diana faced a federal judge for the first time, over charges they attempted to sell secrets about nuclear submarines to a foreign power in exchange for cryptocurrency https://t.co/6Rm8JlFh92 pic.twitter.com/rrlNZI84vc
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Toebbe stated in one communication that he had been thinking about his choices for a while and was pleased to collaborate with "a trustworthy professional partner." According to the source, he also claimed to have separated all the information he had gathered into 51 parcels and asked for $100,000 for each. Brice Miller, a special agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, said in a statement that the Toebbes "betrayed the American people and significantly endangered our national security when they remorselessly attempted to sell highly sensitive information related to nuclear-powered warships for their own financial benefit." During the plea hearing, Jonathan Toebbe admitted to conspiring to leak sensitive information to a foreign authority, harming the US. As part of the plea agreement, Jonathan Toebbe, who had a top-secret security clearance as part of his position, agreed to assist federal agents in locating all sensitive information he had in his possession as well as the roughly $100,000 in bitcoin that had been paid to him. Only six nations now use nuclear submarines: China, France, India, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. These undersea vehicles each have a construction cost of about $3 billion.Navy engineer Jonathan Toebbe and his lookalike wife Diana have been found guilty of espionage, by hiding memory cards containing nuclear secrets in peanut butter sandwiches given to foreign agents. The plot was discovered when one of the agents traded his sandwich for a brownie pic.twitter.com/rT6GjjCqhD
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