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That’s how the FBI managed to outwit the submarine spy

The submarine spy thought he was sending secrets out of the United States. But he had been tricked into rolling around.

The USS Missouri left the shipyard in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on May 10, 2020. At that time, a person was trying to sell the United States secrets about precisely such nuclear-powered submarines of the Virginia class.

On August 28, Jonathan Toebbe (42) drove from Annapolis, Maryland, where he lives, to Virginia. At an agreed location, he left a memory stick wrapped in chewing gum paper.

A message on the chip read, among other things: “As you noted in your letter, the US security authorities are lazy.”

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