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Engineer At Boeing Admits Trying To Sell Space Secrets To Russians (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader shares an ArsTechnica report: Gregory Allen Justice, a 49-year-old engineer living in Culver City, Calif., has pleaded guilty to charges of attempted economic espionage and attempted violation of the Export Control Act. Justice, who according to his father worked for Boeing Satellite Systems in El Segundo, Calif., was arrested last July after selling technical documents about satellite systems to someone he believed to be a Russian intelligence agent. Instead, he sold the docs to an undercover Federal Bureau of Investigation employee. The sting was part of a joint operation by the FBI and the US Air Force Office of Special Investigations. The documents provided by Justice to the undercover agent included information on technology on the US Munitions List, meaning they were regulated by government International Trade in Arms regulations (ITAR). "In exchange for providing these materials during a series of meeting between February and July of 2016, Justice sought and received thousands of dollars in cash payments," a Justice Department spokesperson said in a statement. "During one meeting, Justice and the undercover agent discussed developing a relationship like one depicted on the television show 'The Americans.'"
Any alliance with Russia, as history demonstrates, is always of a short duration
Congratulations; proving you wrong was trivially easy.
You do REALIZE that Crimea was apart of Russia before the United States was even a country? Or do they not teach you idiots history?
As I recall Crimea was *apart* from Russia until Catherine the Great defeated the Ottoman Empire in 1783. Although the constitution of the US wasn't adopted until 1789, I think USA was technically a country between 1776 and 1789...
Although the Russians managed to keep Crimea after the Crimean war (1856), as an indirect consequence of that war, the Russia ended up selling Alaska to the USA. This was part of a bizarre time when US and Russia actually were allies. During the US civil war (1861-1865), Britain was the meddling country trying to destabilize the Union government and Russia was one of our only friends. Russia had just liberated their serfs following the Crimean War aligning themselves with the Union release of the southern slaves and Russian diplomats gave Lincoln a heads up about a French-UK plan to enter the war on the side of the Confederacy and forcing the Union to recognize the Confederacy as a nation. Somehow we kept that relationship with Russia up until WWI.
Politics sometimes makes strange bedfellows...