Originally posted by greeneyedleo
Here it is in the Washington Post:
www.washingtonpost.com...
A Chevy Chase scientist was charged Monday with trying to sell top-secret information to Israel for $11,000, federal prosecutors said.
Stewart D. Nozette, 52, was arrested on a charge of attempted espionage and is being held pending an initial appearance Tuesday in U.S. District Court
in Washington, authorities said.
Authorities said the charges stemmed an undercover sting operation in which an FBI agent posed as an Israeli spy. Nozette allegedly passed the agent
sensitive information through a "dead drop" at a D.C. post office in recent weeks, authorities said.
Nozette worked for the Energy Department's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1990 through 1999, prosecutors said. He was credited with
helping develop a radar in 1994 that suggested ice on the south pole of the moon.
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So FBI somehow knew that playing an Israeli agent and approaching a scientist working on remote sensing technology that has to do with space and
especially the moon was a sure bet to score for catching a possible spy?
That would also suggest that it might be a widespread notion in intelligence that Israel might be somehow interested in doing parallel research next
to what NASA does at the moon?
What for?
Israel isn't going to have a space program sending something at the moon right?
That is leaving us with the option to think they were interested in beforehand knowledge about scientific discoveries at the moon.
So why Mossad might have an interest at the moon? Are they in to scientific accurate science fiction or something? Do they plan to develop a Hollywood
production? Do they intend to buy acres at the moon or are they just extreme space enthusiasts? Or is it just that they intend to sell anything at
someone else? Probably somebody that US would do anything to make sure they don't get any such kind of technology?
[edit on 20-10-2009 by spacebot]