Stewart Nozette
Federal agents have arrested an American scientist for trying to sell top-secret information to Israel.
52-year old Stewart D. Nozette worked for the Energy Department’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1990 through 1999, and helped develop radar that detected ice on the southern pole of the moon. Nozette evolved that idea from already-existing “Star Wars” technology used to track missiles and test sensory technology.
Nozette was approached by an FBI agent posing as an Israeli spy who gave him US $11,000 for the classified information, which was passed at a “dead drop” DC post office last week.
He was president of the Alliance for Competitive Technology, a nonprofit group he founded in 1990. He has held security clearances as high as top secret and had regular access to classified information as recently as 2006, federal authorities said.
Authorities would not say what prompted their investigation, but an FBI agent wrote in court papers that Nozette acted as a technical consultant for an unnamed aerospace firm that the Israeli government owned. From 1998 through 2008, the scientist “answered the company’s questions and, in return, Nozette received regular payments from the company,” the agent wrote.
The agent wrote that the Israeli company paid Nozette $225,000 during that span.
Nozette had access to classified US space technology
In 2007, federal authorities raided Nozette’s nonprofit group and his residence in Chevy Chase, according to a computerized court docket. The docket did not indicate why authorities searched the locations, but the investigation appears to be unrelated to the espionage allegations.
Sometime before Nozette took a foreign trip in January, he told a colleague that he would flee the United States if charged with a crime, the agent wrote. Nozette added that he would tell officials from an unidentified country and Israel “everything” he knew, the court papers allege.
On Sept. 3, the FBI agent wrote, an undercover agent called Nozette, posing as a member of the Israeli spy agency Mossad. They met later that day at a hotel, the agent wrote, and discussed the scientist’s willingness to give Israel classified material.
Nozette said he would turn over such information in exchange for money, the agent wrote.
He told the agent that he had access to most of the things the “U.S. has done in space,” according to a transcript of a recorded conversation of the meeting, the court papers said.
At a meeting the next day, Nozette told the agent that he no longer had access to the classified information but pointed to his head and said “it’s in” there, the agent wrote.
Still, the agent wrote, Nozette was worried about giving classified information to the Mossad. He then told the agent, “I’ll show you mine, you show me yours,” the court papers allege.
By the end of the meeting, Nozette had agreed to communicate with his source through a post office box, the FBI alleged.
The FBI twice left envelopes last month in the box, filled with a total of $11,000 in cash and a list of questions for Nozette to answer, the agent wrote. Nozette picked up the envelopes and returned with envelopes containing classified information about the country’s satellites, early-warning systems and its ability to retaliate against a large-scale attack, prosecutors and FBI officials said.
An official in the communications office of the Israeli Embassy declined to comment late Monday on the allegations. In a news release, federal prosecutors noted that the Israeli government was not accused of any wrongdoing.
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yimach shmo vezichro, shem reshaim yirkav
So what? If this were the worst thing to happen in today’s world? What the hey. I see that the person who approached this man setting a trap for his greed? Was NOT a Jew sent by Israel, nor were they the Mossad for that matter. Of course the press will eat this up-another call for anti-Semitic hatred and a ‘good ole boy” pat on the back for Husein Obama–I’m gonna be truthful here and say I trust NOTHING that happens in the US government at this present time.
@Wanda: Yimach shma vezichra, shem reshaim yirkav.
It had nothing to do with Israel trying to buy secrets. He was selling them whomever he thought was the highest bidder.
Wanda wrote, “So what?” and managed to blame Obama for this.
This just shows that right-wingers who say they “support Israel” won’t admit that Israel spies on the US and if Israel spies on the US, a normal person would ask, “Why would Israel spy on the US?” Sadly, right-wingers are not normal and won’t ask this simple question.
Wanda must also face the fact that 78% of Jews in the US voted for “Husein” Obama. How does she resolve her anti-Arab right-wing “support” of Israel with that fact?. The whole ideology of the right-wing in the US is falling apart and people like Wanda are helping it along.
@Frank: Is that the way that Jonathan Pollard operated too?
@Phil: What does “yimach shmo vezichro, shem reshaim yirkav” mean?
Frank & Wanda are examples of what is exactly wrong with the modern American conservative movement.
They dare to call themselves “patriots” except when it comes to Israel. It is for that country that they will bow and scrape to, make excuses for and send our sons and daughters off to die for.
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson would have smacked Frank’s dentures out of his mouth.
Babble on, patriots, babble on.
@Nim: “May your name and memory be obliterated,. may the name of the wicked rot”.
This is kinda’ like Clinton selling sensitive missile guidance technology to the Chinese, via Clinton pal Bernie Schwartz and his company, Loral, for campaign cash.
Investigated for Israeli espionage:
Richard Wolfe
Paul Wolfowitz
Steven Bryan
Douglas Fife
Is there a pattern here? How many Japanese have been arrested for spying? Irish? Canadians? Help me out here, folks!
@NIM- Lech Le Gehenom- Go to Hell in Hebrew.
Geh Cocken Offen Yom- Go shit in the ocean- in Yiddish
Du Dreckiger Schweinhundt- You Shitty Swinedog- Pure German
What other languages should I curse in. That is the one benefit of growing up in Queens. The ONLY one.
No, this is fact. Is it that it doesn’t fit what you want to believe in? If you were a real patriot, then you wouldn’t harbour such hatred and ignorance. You are the reason that the term Patriot has been linked to such haters. It seems to me that it parallels the TRUST. Posing as a Patriot for the other side to confuse and discredit. It’s BATTLE ON!
Hey Frank, did you even READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE?
Since you obviously didn’t, here’s a bit of it:
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Authorities would not say what prompted their investigation, but an FBI agent wrote in court papers that Nozette acted as a technical consultant for an unnamed aerospace firm that the Israeli government owned. From 1998 through 2008, the scientist “answered the company’s questions and, in return, Nozette received regular payments from the company,” the agent wrote.
The agent wrote that the Israeli company paid Nozette $225,000 during that span.
In 2007, federal authorities raided Nozette’s nonprofit group and his residence in Chevy Chase, according to a computerized court docket. The docket did not indicate why authorities searched the locations, but the investigation appears to be unrelated to the espionage allegations.
Sometime before Nozette took a foreign trip in January, he told a colleague that he would flee the United States if charged with a crime, the agent wrote. Nozette added that he would tell officials from an unidentified country and Israel “everything” he knew, the court papers allege.
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Gee, getting paid by Israel for years and saying he would flee there if things got rough for him, that doesn’t sound like someone who was “set up” by the feds.
Stop making excuses for Israel, Frank. Maybe you’re a Jew yourself and won’t say it because the Boerevolk will stop giving you interviews? Just a hunch.
Babble on, patriotard!
Ja The NIM Truth, Sie haben Recht, Ich bin auch die Meinung.
Hey, Nim nuts, the Times article left out that the Israelis had no knowledge of this. In fact, the Times is virulently anti Israel. You, of course cling to any “source” that supports your rabid hatred of Israel. Maybe you think that you have to be a Jew to support a democracy. That really shows the limitations of your mind, and how ignorant and closed you are! And in fact what have YOU done to help Die Boere? Run your dumb ignorant mouth? It’s always the ones who attack others who have done nothing themselves. How do I know that you’re not a self hating Jew posing as a Jew hater? And why the obsession with Jews? Do you somehow feel inferior to them? Or are you want to be a Jew and feel left out? Why don’t you just convert, moron?
The nim nut forgets to mention Robert Hanson who was a CIA agent who gave secrets to the Bolsheviki for over twenty years and his family. Of course an ignorant vermin like this wouldn’t mention it because then he can’t blame Jews. Maybe he has some obsession due to a Jewish girl rejecting him, just a hunch.
Ignore the name calling The NIM Truth, as it is like Mahatma Ghandi once said: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win”. So one day The Great Frankenstein of Queens will indeed also “see” what we’ve known for many years or even decades.