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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.'"
Wouldn't it be justice if he is a Hillary surrogate? The leftists have done everything they can to impede President Trump from being successful. It would be justice if it turned out that Hillary surrogates were just as corrupt as Trump's surrogates allegedly are.
Gotta be an ex-McDonnell/Douglass guy/
The one's who hire hitmen are the stupidest, they don't exist.
maybe he'll develop a relationship more like the ones in the series "orange is the new black".
Nullius in verba
Trump to announce former engineer as new FBI director.
Well first of all, I would say you're really up the creek without a paddle if you try something like this. This falls under epic bad life choices. Still, I remember watching a spy documentary and strangely even seemingly reliable folks will sometimes leak information for the thrill, some sort of mid-life crisis or even due to depression. Former actual Russian spies have said sometimes it isn't even for that much money. It's unfortunate but something that folks in the Intelligence community have to deal with time and time again.
Russia beat you into space. I heard that space exploration has so many spinoffs and pays back seven dollars/rubles for every dollar/ruble spent...
Why would they need space secrets?
... then either play the political games if you want promotions, leave for something better, or just learn to live with where you are. Whatever you do, don't be double stupid by violating the rules. That kind of stupid belongs in jail.
The US should be stealing rocket secrets from the russians!
Come on guys -_-. All a story like this is going to do is take pressure off of another "certain" person. People really are that dumb. Place your bets; one week? Two weeks? I wonder what Bills the U.S. will pass or people will be fired in the meantime. I also like how it's normal to talk about a country we aren't at war with like we are. Conservatives have the weirdest ways of expressing nostalgia. All of the world's leaders are ego maniacs and placing blame in a generalizing way is playing a dangerous game of Jenga.
If you think the Feds are the friend of the average citizen, you're an idiot.
I think the Chinese know how to play game better than anyone else. Gather all the trade secrets and intel that you can, while "systematically dismantling" anyone leaking the same to the world.
Sometimes I wonder what the going market rates are for this sort of thing. Did this guy try to sell to Russians, because they pay more than the Chinese?
Who was confused by this guy's last name coupled with mention of the Justice Department?
He didn't say the word or name Israel, so there's nothing wrong with giving those secrets to Russia.
Justice and the undercover agent discussed developing a relationship like one depicted on the television show 'The Americans.'
Forget the cash payments. See if you can get me Paige's phone number.
Don't try to make this about Russia, they weren't trying to buy your "space secrets". Have you already forgotten that they won the space race, perhaps? They don't need to buy "space secrets" from anyone, regardless of the size of their budget compared to yours.
With his head.