those vetting the security clearance didn't look close enough at this guy,.....
this isn't the first time a "highly qualified" engineer tried to steal our technology..
so the next time a liberal says.. "We should let more foreign born college graduates stay in our country".. just tell them HELL NO,..
Mostafa Ahmed Awwad, 35, a York County resident who worked at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, was indicted on two counts of attempted exportation of defense articles and technical data,
Court documents describe a saga that included an FBI undercover agent posing as an Egyptian intelligence officer, a clandestine meeting in Sandy Bottom Nature Park in Hampton, a prearranged "dead drop" along a secluded hiking trail and Awwad's alleged intention to wear a pinhole camera to photograph classified material.
During one meeting with the undercover agent, he "discussed where to strike the vessel with a missile in order to sink it," an affidavit states.
Awwad worked in the nuclear engineering and planning department at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, having begun working at the yard early this year, the affidavit says. His security clearance gave him access to information on Naval nuclear propulsion systems.
During the 90-minute meeting, the affidavit says, Awwad told "Yousef" he intended "to utilize his position of trust with the U.S. Navy to obtain military technology for use by the Egyptian government."
"Awwad discussed various aspects of U.S. radar technology, U.S. nuclear aircraft carriers, ballistic nuclear submarines, and nuclear attack submarines in an attempt to describe his ability to obtain information for the Egyptian government," the FBI affidavit says.
Awwad told "Yousef" he would copy the Ford's designs onto CDs, and would conduct "clandestine communications with Yousef by email and unattributable telephones."
Court documents say Awwad was born in Saudi Arabia and married his current spouse in May 2007 in Cairo, where he began the U.S. immigration process to become a citizen.
this isn't the first time a "highly qualified" engineer tried to steal our technology..
so the next time a liberal says.. "We should let more foreign born college graduates stay in our country".. just tell them HELL NO,..