Spy case: Wife of former Navy engineer pleads guilty to being his lookout

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He left another SD card, hidden in a pack of gum in a second dead-drop. And received $70,000 in August, the feds said. 

The couple was busted when they completed the third drop in October. Both have been in custody since their arrest in the spy case.

“Among the secrets, the US government most zealously protects are those related to the design of its nuclear-powered warships,” Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the Justice Department’s National Security Division said in a statement. “[Jonathan Toebbe] was entrusted with some of those secrets and instead of guarding them, he betrayed the trust placed in him and conspired to sell them to another country for personal profit.”

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