Selling Secrets: Real Life Spies...
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MSN - Engineer charged with selling secrets
An engineer from Haiku who fashions himself as the "father" of the technology that protects the B2 Spirit from heat seeking missiles has been arrested and charged with selling secrets to a foreign country. Noshir S. Gowadia was arrested on wednesday after it was found that in 2002, he had faxed a document with classified info to foreign official. He also allegedly gave information to two other countries.
He was an engineer with the company, Northrop Grumman Corp. from 1968 to 1986 and helped design part of the B-2's propulsion system that helps hide it from enemy missiles...
It's kind of funny. When I think of selling military secrets, I think of spy cameras, and secret codes, and dudes in black with shades on. I don't expect an engineer to simply fax off documents... Wow. Spying has come a long way since Bond. I guess it's no wonder this guy got busted...
MSN - Engineer charged with selling secretsAn engineer from Haiku who fashions himself as the "father" of the technology that protects the B2 Spirit from heat seeking missiles has been arrested and charged with selling secrets to a foreign country. Noshir S. Gowadia was arrested on wednesday after it was found that in 2002, he had faxed a document with classified info to foreign official. He also allegedly gave information to two other countries.
He was an engineer with the company, Northrop Grumman Corp. from 1968 to 1986 and helped design part of the B-2's propulsion system that helps hide it from enemy missiles...
It's kind of funny. When I think of selling military secrets, I think of spy cameras, and secret codes, and dudes in black with shades on. I don't expect an engineer to simply fax off documents... Wow. Spying has come a long way since Bond. I guess it's no wonder this guy got busted...
posted by Zaphod at 7:58 AM
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