NASA scientist jailed for 13 years for offering to sell state secrets to Israel

[zorgon]

NASA scientist jailed for 13 years for offering to sell state secrets to Israel

'I accept full responsibility,' space boffin tells court
Wanted Israel to have information on how to retaliate against large-scale attacks
Told undercover agent he had 'crossed the Rubicon'
Man had worked on the Reagan-era 'Star Wars' shield

So here is a NASA scientist who worked of the Star Wars program? Selling secrets to Israel to boot? But NASA scientists working on Star Wars? That is a very significant revelation   


Jailed: Nasa space scientist turned spy Stewart Nozette has been jailed for 13 years after admitting to selling defence secrets to Israel

A former government space scientist has been sentenced to 13 years in prison after admitting he tried to sell space and defence secrets to Israel in what turned out to be an FBI sting operation.

Appearing in federal court in a prison jumpsuit yesterday, Stewart Nozette said he was 'paying for a fatal lack of judgment.'

'I accept full responsibility,' Nozette told U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman.

Nozette was known primarily as a defence technologist who had worked on the Reagan-era missile defense shield effort, nicknamed 'Star Wars' and formally called the Strategic Defense Initiative.

As a leading scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the 1990s, Nozette came up with the concept behind the Clementine space mission, which ultimately discovered ice on the moon, according to the sentencing memo in the espionage case by Nozette's legal team.

Nozette also was ordered to pay $217,800 in restitution for fraudulent claims he made to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in Arlington, Virginia and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland

NASA scientist jailed for 13 years for offering to sell state secrets to Israel

So this guy worked on Star Wars and came up with the idea for the Clementine Mission...  If there were no secrets to hide, there would be none to sell and land him in jail

[Ivalen]

It's the formula used in the paint that is secret. 

[Somamech]

This News is Nutz 

I'm going to quick post a couple of links as I found them :S

Wiki Page for Stewart Nozette

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Nozette

[Somamech]

On the Wikipage you can find a Link to a Nasa Page which is Nuked 

Wayback Machine has some part of it, and honestly you don't know how much of the site they saved or had taken out 

Link:

http://web.archive.org/web/20100105231706/http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/Mini-RF/team/stewart_nozette.html

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