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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Woodward

Wife of naval engineer charged in spy case pleads guilty to helping trade submarine secrets

AP

The wife of a former Navy engineer has pleaded guilty to helping him sell nuclear submarine secrets to what he believed was a foreign government.

Diana Toebbe and Jonathan Toebbe initially pleaded not guilty following their arrest last year, the culmination of an alleged scheme in which he traded Virginia-class nuclear submarine secrets – hidden in memory cards tucked into a sandwich, a Band-Aid and a gum wrapper – for thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency.

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