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A US navy nuclear engineer and his wife have been charged with selling nuclear submarine secrets to what they thought was a foreign state.</p>
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Jonathan Toebbe, 42, and his wife Diana, 45, were arrested in West Virginia on Saturday, the Justice Department announced.</p>
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Toebbe worked in the US Navy&#39;s nuclear propulsion programme and had national security clearance.</p>
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The Justice Department said that in April 2020 Toebbe 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>
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The FBI intercepted the package, and the undercover agent posed as a representative of the foreign government in order to establish a relationship with the couple.</p>
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The agent sent Jonathan Toebbe, who used the pseudonym &quot;Alice,&quot; an email offering him a gift as thanks for the data. But Toebbe responded with caution, asking instead to set up a &quot;dead drop&quot; location and to be paid in cryptocurrency.</p>
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For nearly a year, the couple &quot;sold information known as restricted data concerning the design of nuclear powered warships to a person they believed was a representative of a foreign power,&quot; the statement said.</p>
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Jonathan Toebbe is reported to have raked in around $100,000 in cryptocurrency, the complaint affidavit alleges.</p>
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The couple transferred digital memory cards of data to the agent. In the first dead drop, &quot;the SD card was wrapped in plastic and placed between two slices of bread on a half a peanut butter sandwich,&quot; the agent said in the complaint.</p>
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Other SD cards were hidden in a chewing gum package and a sealed band-aid wrapper, with the band-aid still inside.</p>
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The couple was arrested on Saturday after leaving another SD card at a dead drop location.</p>
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