US scientist charged with attempted spying for Israel

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US scientist charged with attempted spying for Israel

(AFP) – 22 hours ago

WASHINGTON — The US authorities arrested Monday a leading American scientist who had worked for the Pentagon and NASA and charged him with attempted spying for Israel.

Stewart Nozette, 52, was apprehended after a sting operation involving an undercover FBI agent, the Department of Justice said, adding that there was no wrongdoing by Israel.

He is charged with "attempted espionage for knowingly and willfully attempting to communicate, deliver, and transmit classified information relating to the national defense of the United States to an individual that Nozette believed to be an Israeli intelligence officer ..."

[Complete story can be accessed at this link]

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Wayne Madsen, of Wayne Madsen Report (home page at this link) comments on this case:

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"... Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories continues to maintain a presence at the Nevada Test Site.

On October 19, 2009, a one-time scientist for Lawrence Livermore, Dr. Stewart David Nozette of Chevy Chase, Maryland, was arrested by the FBI for volunteering to pass classified U.S. defense secrets to an FBI agent posing as an Israeli Mossad agent.

Significantly, Nozette, who also worked for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), was an "outside consultant" for IAI [i.e. Israeli Aerospace Industries]. Nozette also worked for the George H. W. Bush White House.

Nozette held a high-level "Q" security clearance -- which grants access to sensitive U.S. nuclear secrets -- while working for Lawrence Livermore and the Energy Department. The would-be Israeli spy also attempted to pass information on U.S. intelligence satellites.

Nozette also worked for the U.S. Air Force's Phillips Laboratory in Alexandria, Virginia and was considered as expert on the Strategic Defense Initiative or "Star Wars ..."

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This is interesting. Theres so many different angles this could be a set up. By Mossad, by FBI...Im sure this guy new a lot of incriminating shit.