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Zorro

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Wed Oct 20, 2021, 08:54 AM Oct 2021

The accused spy knew stealth was crucial from his work on submarines. He surfaced anyway.

For years, the aspiring spy had gone to remarkable lengths to protect his identity and evade detection.

With a cash-bought burner phone, he created an anonymous email account that could send encrypted messages, according to the FBI, then waited to use it.

To avoid suspicion at his job developing America’s most advanced submarines, he allegedly snuck sensitive documents out for years, a few pages at time.

The Navy veteran’s work for the U.S. government had taught him to spot the clues that betray insider threats, and, according to an FBI affidavit, he would later brag that “we made very sure not to display even a single one.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/10/20/toebbe-spy-couple-submarine-annapolis/

Traitor. Same for his wife.

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The accused spy knew stealth was crucial from his work on submarines. He surfaced anyway. (Original Post) Zorro Oct 2021 OP
Yet Jared K found that a security clearance was a sales license for our country;s secrets. keithbvadu2 Oct 2021 #1
They give themselves away in the end. marble falls Oct 2021 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author ExTex Oct 2021 #3

keithbvadu2

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1. Yet Jared K found that a security clearance was a sales license for our country;s secrets.
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 09:14 AM
Oct 2021

Yet Jared K found that a security clearance was a sales license for our country;s secrets.

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