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igotthisguitar
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igotthisguitar
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Hmmmmmmm ... undisclosed country. Which one might that be?
Ore. Sailor Charged With Espionage
By MICHAEL FELBERBAUM, Associated Press Writer
Wed Aug 9, 11:06 PM ET
RICHMOND, Va. - A sailor accused of taking a Navy laptop containing classified information and peddling its contents to foreign governments is being held for possible court-martial, the military Wednesday.
The Navy said that Petty Officer 3rd Class Ariel J. Weinmann gave the classified information, containing national defense data, to an undisclosed foreign government before he destroyed the computer.
Weinmann, 21, of Salem, Ore., was confined at Norfolk Naval Air Station on six charges, the Navy said in a statement.
The charges include three counts of espionage, including a suspected March 2005 visit to Bahrain, where Weinmann tried to pass along classified information to a foreign government, the Navy said.
Months later, the Navy said, Weinmann deserted his submarine, the USS Albuquerque, for more than eight months and traveled to Austria and Mexico to "communicate, deliver or transmit" the information.
Weinmann used a mallet in March, near Vienna, to destroy the computer's hard drive, the Navy said.
Naval attorneys for Weinmann, a fire control technician previously assigned to the New London, Conn.-based sub, declined to comment Wednesday.
Ted Brown, U.S. Fleet Forces Command spokesman, would not comment on which government Weinmann was charged with spying for, what he was seeking in exchange for the information, or how he obtained the computer.
Weinmann was picked up at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport March 26 and transferred to Norfolk, the Navy said.
The Navy also charged Weinmann with failing to properly safeguard and store classified information, making an electronic copy of classified information, communicating classified information to a person not entitled to receive it, and stealing and destroying a government computer.
Weinmann's father said FBI and Navy investigators searched the family's house twice.
"In a lot of ways he was very naive, gullible," Rob Weinmann told KGW-TV. "I definitely don't want him to be a scapegoat."
He added that his son had become disillusioned with the Navy by the time he disappeared.
Weinmann could face the death penalty if his fleet commander decides to press for a court-martial. |
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
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Sources: Navy sailor suspected of spying for Russia
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Wednesday, August 9, 2006 Posted: 2034 GMT (0434 HKT)
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Manage Alerts | What Is This? WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A sailor facing espionage and desertion charges has been held at a Norfolk, Virginia, brig since March, the U.S. Navy said Wednesday.
Ariel Weinmann, 21, is suspected of having worked on behalf of Russia, said military sources close to the case.
He was likely to have had access to technical manuals and other material on submarine systems, Navy sources said. No one else in the Navy is suspected of having worked with Weinmann, they said.
The fire control technician third class, assigned to the submarine USS Albuquerque, attempted on three occasions to pass classified information to foreign agents, the charges against him state.
Those incidents occurred in March 2005 in Bahrain; October 2005 in Vienna, Austria; and March 2006 in Mexico City, Mexico, according to the charges.
In addition to the espionage allegations, Weinmann also faces desertion charges, which could result in the death penalty. He is accused of deserting in July 2005 during his first tour of duty.
A customs agent took Weinmann into custody March 26 at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport when he tried to re-enter the United States.
The case is the second involving allegations of military spying by Russia. The Defense Department has said it suspects Russia collected information about American intelligence in Iraq from U.S. Central Command in Doha, Qatar, in 2003. |
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AbbeFaria
Joined: 17 May 2005
Location: Gangnam
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| Weinmann could face the death penalty if his fleet commander decides to press for a court-martial. |
You say that like it's a bad thing. If he's guilty he definately deserves to fry. It's one thing to go AWOL and desert your post during war time, but to actively try and sell secrets to the enemy...? Yep, death to him.
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