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The court papers note that Toebbe had worked for the Navy for almost a decade on nuclear propulsion for submarines, a technology that the United States recently agreed to provide to Australia. Previously, the United States had only shared the technology with Britain, also a partner in the deal with Australia. The agreement scuttled an Australian deal with France, igniting a diplomatic row between Washington and Paris.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/02/14/toebbe-plea-navy-spy/
“The information was slowly and carefully collected over several years in the normal course of my job to avoid attracting attention and smuggled past security checkpoints a few pages at a time,” Toebbe allegedly wrote, adding that he no longer had access to classified data but could answer any technical questions the foreign country might have.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/02/14/toebbe-plea-navy-spy/
“The information was slowly and carefully collected over several years in the normal course of my job to avoid attracting attention and smuggled past security checkpoints a few pages at a time,” Toebbe allegedly wrote, adding that he no longer had access to classified data but could answer any technical questions the foreign country might have.