Got TIPS or BREAKING NEWS? Please call 1-284-442-8000 direct/can also WhatsApp same number or Email ALL news to:newsvino@outlook.com;                               ads call 1-284-440-6666

Ex-US Navy man jailed for attempted espionage for Russia

February 11th, 2014 | Tags: US Navy espionage Russia
Robert Hoffman was a former cryptologic technician on US submarines. Photo: BBC
BBC

A former US Navy sailor has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for attempted espionage.

A federal court in Norfolk, Virginia, said Robert Hoffman, 40, had passed secret information to people he believed were Russian spies.

They were in fact FBI agents working under cover.

Prosecutors said Hoffman, a former cryptologist technician on US submarines, had given secret files about tracking ships.

"By attempting to hand over some of America's most closely held military secrets, Robert Hoffman put US service members and this country at risk," acting assistant attorney General John Carlin said after the sentencing.

"This prosecution should serve as a warning to others who would compromise our nation's secrets," he added.

Hoffman was arrested in December 2012 and found guilty in August last year.

 
 

Leave a Reply



Create a comment


Submit comment

Create a comment

Submit comment
Disclaimer: Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) welcomes your thoughts, feedback, views, bloggs and opinions. However, by posting a blogg you are agreeing to post comments or bloggs that are relevant to the topic, and that are not defamatory, liable, obscene, racist, abusive, sexist, anti-Semitic, threatening, hateful or an invasion of privacy. Violators may be excluded permanently from making contributions. Please view our declaimer above this article. We thank you in advance for complying with VINO's policy.

Follow Us On

Disclaimer: All comments posted on Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) are the sole views and opinions of the commentators and or bloggers and do not in anyway represent the views and opinions of the Board of Directors, Management and Staff of Virgin Islands News Online and its parent company.