Top NASA scientist busted for leaking satellite intel

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/20/nasa_security/

by CaptainMorgan • 17 years ago

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Alex3917• 17 years ago

Why would you risk execution to deliver US military intel to Israel? That's like smuggling sand to the beach.

uuilly2• 17 years ago

Human intel shops have a nice acronym for that: M.I.C.E. Money, Ideals, Coercion, Ego

Money: You pay them.

Ideals: Appeal to their ideals. Say in this case, protecting the Jewish state.

Coercion: Blackmail

Ego: Make a powerless bureaucrat feel important on a historical scale.

Top three countries that spy on the US:

1) Israel

2) China

3) France

fnid• 17 years ago

France higher on the list than Russia?

Janzert• 17 years ago

Hmm, I wonder how that statistic was made. My first thought is, wouldn't that probably be the top three countries caught spying on the US?

patio11• 17 years ago

He seems to have been quite receptive to M with more than a little E thrown in, to the extent that receiving M from a (probably non-Mossad but there is no proving that) Israeli source convinced his E that he was really a Highly Sought After Secret Agent.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/20/nasa_security/

Mr. International Espionage was apparently a really cheap date: $9,000 for "... information classified as both top secret and secret, on U.S. satellites, early warning systems, means of defense or retaliation against large-scale attack, communications intelligence information, and major elements of defense strategy".

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/19/stewart-nozette-pic...

kvs• 17 years ago

"execution"? I doubt that but life in prison is more likely.

s3graham• 17 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_Unite...

Interesting articles. I don't know if they apply or not. :)

Edit: ah, you're probably right, there hasn't been an execution for a non-homicide since 1964.

paulbaumgart• 17 years ago

Obviously I don't know the details of the sting operation, but shouldn't it be the default to assume someone approaching you about selling classified information is an FBI agent, unless very convincingly demonstrated otherwise?

endtime2• 17 years ago

Would this qualify as entrapment?

Top NASA scientist busted for leaking satellite intel

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