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Navy Employee Busted in Spy Sting for Trying to Sell Virginia-class Reactor Secrets

Monday, October 11th, 2021

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Navy Employee Busted in Spy Sting for Trying to Sell Virginia-class Reactor Secrets

Virginia-class submarine Montana (SSN 794). Work on Virginia-class subs contributed to sales and earnings increases at HII in the second quarter. Photo: HII

A government employee and his wife were arrested over the weekend for attempting this summer to sell classified information about the Virginia-class attack submarine’s nuclear reactor to a foreign government, according to an unsealed criminal complaint dated Friday. Jonathan Toebbe and his wife, Diana Toebbe, were in federal custody by Saturday, according to a Monday filing in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia. The FBI alleged the two Annapolis, Md., residents violated the Atomic Energy…

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