Saturday, November 07, 2015

Spy sentenced! BZ!


This is a simple, short blog. I'm traveling this morning but wanted to acknowledge the arrest of a CT resident sentenced for stealing F35 engine materials and sending it to Iran. 

WASHINGTON — A former Connecticut resident has been sentenced to 97 months in jail for
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attempting to send sensitive technical data on the F-35 engine to Iran
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I have one thing to say... BRAVO ZULU to the LE/CI folks who made this happen.

Without restating the  DefenseNews article, in addition to the F-35 and F-22, the guy (I refuse to rename him) also stole documents from numerous other U.S. military engine programs, including the V-22 Osprey, the C-130J Hercules and the Global Hawk engines.

Very little, very late. However, one down, many more to go... Nice job.