The FBI says the scheme to sell secret information about nuclear submarines began in April 2020 when Jonathan Toebbe sent a package of Navy documents to a foreign government and wrote that he was interested in selling operations manuals, performance reports and other sensitive information.
Authorities say he also provided instructions for how to conduct the secretive relationship, with a letter that said: "I apologize for this poor translation into your language. Please forward this letter to your military intelligence agency. I believe this information will be of great value to your nation. This is not a hoax."
Is this how spying is done? Is this really it, or is this the equivalent of my sister calling herself a chef when she served me a black piece of bread that was supposed to be an EZ Bake Oven cake?
Typically, intelligence agencies don't take walk-ins or cold calls. It's too easy for them to get burned. Often, they will report such contact to their counterparts from the country it originated as a sign of good will.
He's a spy, just not a good one. Spying doesn't have to be initiated by the party receiving the information, and the spy doesn't have to be motivated by anything more noble than money. He failed at the second hurdle - making undetected first contact with the other party - but had he succeeded he might have put himself in contact with people who had a better idea of what they were doing.
This guy was all over the place. A lot of what he did was decent trade craft, but he also did stupid shit like drive his own car and park it nearby when hitting the deaf drop.
He got caught up in playing spy, while at the same time he had doubts, and communicated those doubts to the FBI thinking they were Country 1, saying the feds are lazy and to broke to pay out 100s of thousands so they can collect the evidence.
Hope we find out who Country 1 is, a lot of speculation on France at the moment.
Theyll be even more screwed when the U.S collapses. They only reason they can remain a colonial power is because they leech off our our technology and our economy.
Once the U.S. is gone, theyll be stuck in their own region with crumbling infrastructure and increasing number of angry africans.
Because you look at the rank and file and it's virtuous people, but the leadership consists of lowlifes like White Rage Milley, and is thoroughyl corrupy.
There's little more virtue in the rank and file than you'd find in the average gas station men's room.
Some are there to serve, others to pick up a paycheck but many are there because there was simply nothing else for them to do. It's the men's version of becoming a stripper.
Pogs. Pogs ruin everything. Milley may have a combat ribbon but he got it from when the base he was in charge of had a mortar land 30 yards outside the walls....Yes they give CA's for a random piece of ordinance landing yards away, for moral and civie propaganda reasons.
The FBI recovered a blue memory card wrapped in plastic and placed in a peanut butter sandwich, court documents say. The FBI provided the contents of the memory card to a Navy subject matter expert, who determined that the records included design elements and performance characteristics of Virginia-class submarine reactors, the Justice Department said. --- A PB sandwich, how American. Lot of Leftists out there larping "resistance" like they're playing Star Wars or something. Then they take it too far, or take it really too far with stuff like this. Probably weren't going to donate all that money but buy themselves some new crap. It's about selfishness and evil, getting money while maybe telling themselves they're doing it to donate to a cause.
Quick, we gotta go from calling parents concerned about the crap being taught to children 'terrorists' to rounding them up and sending them to gitmo! If we go nose to nose with this molehill it'll eventually turn into a mountain.
Is this how spying is done? Is this really it, or is this the equivalent of my sister calling herself a chef when she served me a black piece of bread that was supposed to be an EZ Bake Oven cake?
I mean, it’s about the difficulty level that China has with elected officials.
Typically, intelligence agencies don't take walk-ins or cold calls. It's too easy for them to get burned. Often, they will report such contact to their counterparts from the country it originated as a sign of good will.
He's a spy, just not a good one. Spying doesn't have to be initiated by the party receiving the information, and the spy doesn't have to be motivated by anything more noble than money. He failed at the second hurdle - making undetected first contact with the other party - but had he succeeded he might have put himself in contact with people who had a better idea of what they were doing.
This guy was all over the place. A lot of what he did was decent trade craft, but he also did stupid shit like drive his own car and park it nearby when hitting the deaf drop.
He got caught up in playing spy, while at the same time he had doubts, and communicated those doubts to the FBI thinking they were Country 1, saying the feds are lazy and to broke to pay out 100s of thousands so they can collect the evidence.
Hope we find out who Country 1 is, a lot of speculation on France at the moment.
Well the military is officially burning to the ground, fortunately just in time for China to take over!
China's not taking over. It's hard to take anything over when you can't keep the lights on at home and that's where China is at now.
Theyll be even more screwed when the U.S collapses. They only reason they can remain a colonial power is because they leech off our our technology and our economy.
Once the U.S. is gone, theyll be stuck in their own region with crumbling infrastructure and increasing number of angry africans.
Why am I not shocked. As a veteran I honestly believed for a long time the military was safe from this. Boy was I wrong
Because you look at the rank and file and it's virtuous people, but the leadership consists of lowlifes like White Rage Milley, and is thoroughyl corrupy.
There's little more virtue in the rank and file than you'd find in the average gas station men's room.
Some are there to serve, others to pick up a paycheck but many are there because there was simply nothing else for them to do. It's the men's version of becoming a stripper.
If you think this, you've been brainwashed. They're no more "virtuous" than people supporting social justice or vaccine mandates are "virtuous"
Well I didn’t see it like that for a long time. I saw that the vast majority along with me were more traditional minded
The grunts, yes.
However, it isnt the grunts who run the military. Its a bunch of officers from the liberal intelligencia.
Pogs. Pogs ruin everything. Milley may have a combat ribbon but he got it from when the base he was in charge of had a mortar land 30 yards outside the walls....Yes they give CA's for a random piece of ordinance landing yards away, for moral and civie propaganda reasons.
That's also how kamala got her 'wounded in cumbat award' '
Rug burn and sore throats are a serious injury bro!
Absolutely. It’s what I realized after I had been out a while
You really have to be a particularly vile person if you live in West Virginia and support the BLM terrorist group.
Holy shit.
Charge with espionage and seek the death penalty.
There's NO other sane response.
Hang them for treason.
Sub Brief (former sonarman) Read through the indictment and had a few oh shit moment.
This guy had and was offering almost the full technical data package for the Los Angeles class Hull and reactor setup.
https://youtu.be/zpZkSVEgwPU
yeah, but did you know the parents are terrorists?
The FBI recovered a blue memory card wrapped in plastic and placed in a peanut butter sandwich, court documents say. The FBI provided the contents of the memory card to a Navy subject matter expert, who determined that the records included design elements and performance characteristics of Virginia-class submarine reactors, the Justice Department said. --- A PB sandwich, how American. Lot of Leftists out there larping "resistance" like they're playing Star Wars or something. Then they take it too far, or take it really too far with stuff like this. Probably weren't going to donate all that money but buy themselves some new crap. It's about selfishness and evil, getting money while maybe telling themselves they're doing it to donate to a cause.
Why is the FBI investigating parents who complain about CRT being racist?
But not this organization that has ties to spies?
Quick, we gotta go from calling parents concerned about the crap being taught to children 'terrorists' to rounding them up and sending them to gitmo! If we go nose to nose with this molehill it'll eventually turn into a mountain.