The FBI has detained an American engineer who was going to sell the secret technology of nuclear reactors of Virginia-class submarines abroad

There are reports from the United States that one of the engineers of the American naval forces is accused of trying to transfer classified information about nuclear submarines. The name of this person is called. This is Jonathan Tobbe.

The reports say that both Tobbe himself and his wife have repeatedly made attempts to sell secret information about the nuclear reactors of submarine submarines. fleet USA.

It is known that we are talking about secret data that relate to a nuclear power plant on submarines of the "Virginia" type. It is noteworthy that the technology for the creation of just such reactors (GE S9G) will be used in the future construction of nuclear submarines for Australia within the framework of the new military alliance AUKUS.

As they write in the American media, initially, Tobbe did not pay much attention to the "offers", believing that they could be part of the same deal with the Australians (and as it turned out, the deal was being prepared long before the news of the breakdown of the contract with the French). After all, the said engineer had the highest level of clearance in the field of nuclear power. It is also reported that at one time he was in the so-called special reserve of the US Navy, where he served for more than two years, no less, in the command of naval operations.

Reportedly, all this at first did not attract attention from the FBI to Tobbe's activity in terms of his attempts to reach foreign structures in order to transfer data on technologies used in nuclear reactors of submarines.

As a result, under the guise of foreign "customers" were the FBI agents themselves, who offered Tobbe cryptocurrency for "nuclear" secrets. The first "session" with agents acting as foreign buyers of American secrets took place in January this year (2021). As a result, Tobbe was caught red-handed.

Jonathan Tobbe in the United States is one of the leading experts in the use of nuclear technology in the submarine fleet. He has been doing this kind of work since 2012. FBI agents managed to find out that Tobbe decided to involve his wife in attempts to sell the secrets of the nuclear industry abroad. Now Jonathan Tobbe, who is detained by the FBI, could face a really harsh criminal punishment.

Comments

[Mountain shooter]

And who needed these reactors? China? Russia? DPRK? It is unlikely that this engineer with the highest clearance owns the documentation and TECHNOLOGY for the construction of such reactors. Making fuel cells for them ... And without all this, what is the use of his information? Anything to clarify in the tactical capabilities of American nuclear submarines?

[Egoza]

Quote: Mountain Shooter

And who needed these reactors? China? Russia? DPRK?

The FBI needed them! Now they will receive the prize - one, additional funding - two, and "development and orientation" for all the countries you mentioned! Three! Like: "During the investigation ...."

[Snail N9]

Apparently, Russia did not need them, just like China, once no one was interested in them for so long. What does this mean? This means that the intelligence services of these countries are working so "well". Or they just thought it was a provocation ...

[Mikhail3]

Quote: Snail N9

Apparently, Russia did not need them, just like China, once no one was interested in them for so long.

Well, this is hardly the case. The special services and security forces of the United States use the method of provocation as the main one. This is one of the reasons why they no longer have advanced technologies (when you are provoked by a trained professional, and you are just an engineer, it is almost impossible to completely avoid reservations, which then lawyers cling to in the process of cutting and sewing cases.so, gradually, you lose sensible engineers and scientists)), but it also complicates the work of enemy intelligence.
At least it slows things down. You have to do a multi-layered check that takes a lot of time. In order to simply not lose contacts, a resident, ambassadorial guys) Once the USSR bought American technologies as it wanted. Since then, something has changed.
Fortunately, I repeat, the United States has long had nothing to sell at a high price. There is no one to create this, everyone is in jail, or, out of sin, they sell used cars. But they would buy it anyway. Not for big money, but they would give something. There just wasn't enough time. However, another engineer was destroyed. This is also a good result.

[Nexcom]

Of course I wanted to sell Russia and China - who else then?
How can it be without the hand of Moscow and Beijing.

[Seryoga64]

Quote: Mountain Shooter

And who needed these reactors?

There would be a product, there will always be a buyer

[Grandfather]

The messages say that both Tobbe himself and his wife repeatedly attempted to sell classified information about the nuclear reactors of the US submarine fleet.

I was laughing so hard ...! "repeatedly"!!! and they were forgiven for the time being ... but patience ran out!

[Seryoga64]

Quote: Dead Day

and so far they were forgiven ..

How flies were brushed aside
And then, probably, a new plan came to capture the spies, and they remembered about them

[sen]

and so far they were forgiven

We thought to use live bait to catch Russia or China, but it didn’t work out.

[ja-ja-vw]

Quote: Mountain Shooter

And who needed these reactors? China? Russia? DPRK?

yes, all three need

Quote: Mountain Shooter

owns the documentation and TECHNOLOGY for the construction of such reactors.

noise control methods
non-corrosive steam generator
But most likely:
technology of performance lcd in 33 years without recharging and recharging GE S9G
2018
In Russia for the first time created and tested an active zone - "heart" nuclear reactors of nuclear submarines with a resource for the entire life cycle of nuclear submarines, that is, it does not require recharging of nuclear fuel, according to the public annual report of the enterprise of the state corporation "Rosatom" JSC "Afrikantov OKBM"

The development, manufacturing was completed and interdepartmental tests were carried out of two transport cores - an optimized core for nuclear submarines of the 4th generation of the project with a campaign to medium ship repair and unique in the national history of the core with a resource for the entire life cycle of the ship

[Pastor]

It's a pity. You need to know the enemy well and there is no bad thing about copying, if it provides the basis for your own developments.

[Nikolaevich I]

Yo-mine! Nuclear reactors have already become atomic! Probably, the secrets are as valuable as nuclear reactors! When will the "excellent" journalists of the Unified State Exam learn that nuclear power plants, nuclear submarines, nuclear aircraft carriers, cruisers and icebreakers have become such, somewhere, in the 50s of the last century, when few of the "people" understood the difference between the words "nuclear "and" atomic "! When they realized it, it was already "too late" to change the "terms"! The words "settled"! But this only applies to nuclear power plants and sea ships (and underwater ones too ..., it will work for airplanes, space ships by analogy with sea ships ...) with nuclear power plants! The rest became "nuclear" (!) ...: reactor, weapon, explosion, bomb, missiles ....

[Egoza]

Quote: Nikolaevich I

The rest became "nuclear" (!) ...: reactor, weapon, explosion, bomb, missiles ....

In short, say "vigorous" and understand as you want! )))

[Sidor Amenpodestovich]

I would very much like to be enlightened, but from your fiery speech I did not understand anything, it was painfully chaotic.
Could you please slow down again, I'm writing it down?
Thank you.

[Nikolaevich I]

Quote: Sidor Amenpodestovich

I am writing down

What for? Everything is already written down! So, not for me to slow down ... but you need to read more slowly ... How did you, poor thing, graduate from school?

[Sidor Amenpodestovich]

If you are so well versed in the issue under discussion, then it will not be difficult for you to explain a complex concept in simple words. This distinguishes the expert from the clever layman.
Explain, please. However, if you are not an expert, then I withdraw my request. Since clever amateurs can only show off verbally and hysterically.

[Volodin]

Quote: Nikolaevich I

The rest became "nuclear" (!) ...: reactor, weapon, explosion, bomb, missiles ....

What do you mean ... Do you yourself determine what can be called atomic today and what is not, or did the directive come from somewhere from above? So, an atomic submarine and an atomic missile cruiser are possible, but an icebreaker, a bomb or a reactor can or you still do not allow?))

Even at NRNU MEPhI they point out that atomic and nuclear power are concepts that can be used "on equal terms", since they are not in any way a contradiction to each other.

And then, according to your logic, soon a vacuum cleaner cannot be called a vacuum cleaner - it's not just for dust ...

[Seryoga64]

Quote: Volodin

it will not be called a vacuum cleaner

"The collector of everything that is lying on the floor"

[Nikolaevich I]

If you read my comment with "feeling, really, constellation ...", then there would be no reason for questions! Firstly, there is a "nuclear icebreaker" in my commentary ... and why it is "nuclear" is also explained ... ... "! And your "NRNU MEPhI" and the like, I do not respect since such "institutions" tried not so long ago to "simplify" the grammar of the Russian language to please the poor, and they succeeded in something! And if you managed to find fault with the vacuum cleaner, then take a closer look at the hammer at the same time, because. The instrument, designed, as many people think, for hammering in nails, is used by others for, for example, cracking nuts and threatening citizens who do not like the owner of the instrument ... Maybe you can come up with a new name for the hammer ... "multitool", or how else ...? By the way, in recent times, and in some places to the present. books are used as toilet paper ... this is a question of the "universality" of the use of things, since you do not understand this "universality" ...!

[Volodin]

Quote: Nikolaevich I

! And if you managed to find fault with the vacuum cleaner

Ahhh. That's it ... So, it turns out, I was picking on ... Well, you are a wizard to translate arrows))

In general, do not engage in nonsense: atomic and nuclear - words that, as experts have already explained to you (for a second) nuclear scientists, are no exception to each other. Therefore, you do not need to pour water. And then everything, it turns out, is all around - "victims of the exam", including the scientific community of MEPhI, and only you are such an expert from experts

[Nikolaevich I]

Quote: Volodin

In general, don't do nonsense

You too !

Quote: Volodin

atomic and nuclear - are not an exception to each other.

"Atomic" and "nuclear" are not an exception to each other because these are already well-established concepts in colloquial language and literature since the time when there was no understanding of the difference between the words "atomic" and "nuclear", although "atomic" is not " physically "correct! Now, as a rule, they say: nuclear power plant, nuclear submarine, nuclear icebreaker ... although nuclear reactors are "working" there! In principle, one can say: a nuclear submarine, a nuclear icebreaker ... but they don't say that; as there are well-established concepts: nuclear submarine, nuclear icebreaker! "Physically wrong", but well-established, "Karl"! Earlier there were the words: "atomic weapon", "atomic explosion", "atomic bomb", "atomic reactor" .... But now these words are outdated! They are rarely used nowadays! Modern variants are used more often: "nuclear weapon", "nuclear explosion", "nuclear bomb", "nuclear reactor"! There is now a "popular" term "NPP" ... but no one writes "AEU" (!) .. .also, as they write at nuclear power plants, but do not write nuclear power plants, although in local (isolated) cases it can be used ...!
PSA about the experts ... Take, at least, a couple of "words of discord": "lay down" and "lay down" ... So ... "specialists" from "educational institutions" propose to legitimize the word "lay down" where it is now considered erroneous ... citing the historically established order of word formation in the Russian language! "Coffee" is no longer only masculine, but also average ... to the delight of the Losers! As it was recently proposed to replace, again to the delight of the Losers, "parachute", "jury" for "parachute" and "jury"! If previously it was: "fried"; but "fried in oil" or "fried in a pan", now, as I heard, you can write these phrases with one H! Why should I "respect" such "experts? But, unfortunately, I have to explain myself with the former" poor "and" C "!

[Sidor Amenpodestovich]

"Atomic" and "nuclear" are used to denote the type of reaction - fission and fusion, respectively.
Therefore, we have only nuclear (thermonuclear) weapons, and the rest of the devices are atomic.

[Login_Off]

Well, the vacuum cleaner can be called simply - EVSM electro vacuum assembly machine.

[Dmitry Makarov]

I remember before the collapse of the USSR, too, all sorts of rogues traded military secrets.

[Lech from Android.]

The FBI regularly catches live bait, acting as a customer and a buyer ... how many people burned on this ... no, there are still people who want to step on this rake.

[tralflot1832]

The Tobbe family did not reach even a fraction of that glory of the great Coen spouses. Thinking, offering your services by sending a parcel to the embassy, ​​is clearly a great mind and quick wit. Yes, and documents were labeled "for limited use."

[rotmistr60]

all this at first did not attract attention on the part of the FBI to Tobbe's activity in terms of his attempts to reach foreign structures

Very strange. Usually, work begins at the first signal of such intentions. But this will remain on the conscience of the FBI, for them the main thing is that they have been realized. The initiator himself apparently acted aggressively and rudely for which he paid.

[Denis812]

Some weird spy. Which means "tried several times". Is it so difficult to contact the RF or PRC embassy?
Or did no one pick up the phone there and did not answer emails? :)

[SovAr238A]

Quote: Denis812

Some weird spy. Which means "tried several times". Is it so difficult to contact the RF or PRC embassy?
Or did no one pick up the phone there and did not answer emails? :)

Who will call the embassy - if every student knows that all phones are tapped?

[Denis812]

so what? to establish the very fact of the existence of oneself as a potential traitor, the phone is quite suitable for itself. Call from a taxi or a disposable phone. Or a stolen phone. Or a phone where there are no cameras nearby.
Call and say, they say, gentlemen, Russian intelligence officers, finally check the mail on mail.ru, I got sick of sending offers there.

This is if, for some reason, there is no reply to mail through the darknets or something else.

[SovAr238A]

Quote: Denis812

so what? to establish the very fact of the existence of oneself as a potential traitor, the phone is quite suitable for itself. Call from a taxi or a disposable phone. Or a stolen phone. Or a phone where there are no cameras nearby.
Call and say, they say, gentlemen, Russian intelligence officers, finally check the mail on mail.ru, I got sick of sending offers there.

This is if, for some reason, there is no reply to mail through the darknets or something else.

Enchanting ...
Especially when you consider that hooligans are being tracked on cameras even in our country ... If they want to, the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
And the fact that all payphones are unambiguously under the cameras - there are no options at all. except perhaps in remote villages.

it doesn't work like that.

[1536]

New X-Files series? The technology is probably alien.

[AB]

The same setup as with Konstantin Yaroshenko. The undercover FBI came in, talked to the recording of the conversation, heard the silence, the refusal, or I think, edited the recording as they wanted. And voila, the traitor is ready to eat. Can be delayed and planted, can be held on a hook. One word, FBI ...