I pulled the complaint; it's fascinating. The defendants allegedly mailed a cold overture offering submarine secrets to a foreign govt on April Fools Day, writing in the google-translated cover letter "this is not a hoax." documentcloud.org/documents/2108…
There's a long correspondence between the quite-candid defendants and the undercover FBI counterintelligence agent. It starts out very Burn After Reading and then heads toward a philosophy seminar about the impossibility of trusting one another.
fun to see different news orgs come to different conclusions about whether to call the secrets in question classified or not nytimes.com/2021/10/10/us/…
The confusion, I suspect, stems from the Atomic Energy Act (like the Espionage Act before it) not relying on the classification system created by executive orders to define the information it protects. Most likely the info is classified, but the statutes operate independently.
Whatever foreign government it was that turned this fellow in … really did us a solid.

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