Man Caught Trying To Sell Plans For New Aircraft Carrier

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday December 6, 2014 @11:50AM from the bet-you-wish-you'd-stood-in-bed dept.

New submitter cyberjock1980 tips news that an engineer has been caught trying to deliver schematics for an aircraft carrier to the Egyptian government. The 35-year-old civilian received security clearance four months ago after working for the U.S. Navy since February. FBI agents made contact with him, pretending to be with the Egyptian government. They struck a deal to buy documents about the U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford, the first in a new line of improved, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. The man sold four CAD drawings for the carrier, and was later seen photographing another set of schematics. A bond hearing is scheduled for Wednesday.

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Re:Standard FBI followup by dbIII · 2014-12-06 15:53 · Score: 1, Troll

targets a person and convinces that person to do something he would not normally have done
Since the guy doesn't have a history of such a thing it very firmly ticks box number two for entrapment. I suspect someone's taking the lazy way up the promotion ladder and this guy is part of the way of doing it. Such bullshit is disturbingly common.