Diana Toebbe pleads guilty of conspiracy to trade in secret submarines

Diana Toebbe.

A Maryland woman has admitted to helping her husband, a Navy engineer, try to sell nuclear submarine secrets to what they perceive to be a foreign country. Diana ToebbeThe 46-year-old faces three years in prison as part of her plea deal on charges of conspiring to communicate restricted data.

She will have to wait for her mate for quite a while after she comes out from behind the bars. Husband Jonathan Toebbe43 years old, agreed to spend at least 12 years and seven months behind bars when he pleaded guilty on monday with the same fee. That could extend to a total of 17 years and 5 months in prison, depending on the sentence.

Prosecutors went after him as the lead defendant. The pair conspired to sell secrets about nuclear submarines to a “foreign power,” which officials did not identify. Jonathan Toebbe alluded to his wife as part of his plea agreement.

Jonathan Toebbe.

As part of a settlement with prosecutors, Diana Toebbe admitted to spying while her husband served a body release in central southern Pennsylvania on July 31, 2021, and twice in Jefferson County, West Virginia, on June 26 and October 9, 2021.

Just east of Virginia, Jonathan Toebbe appears to have acted alone on August 28, 2021, but he insists that his wife can be trusted.

“There is only one other person I know who knows about our special relationship, and I have absolute confidence in that person,” he wrote on the SD card.

Toebbe, who was given a Top Secret through the Department of Defense and a Q test through the Department of Energy, provided information including reactor data from Virginia-class submarines. He described those documents as having been collected over the years and “smuggled several pages through security checkpoints at a time” and a collection of information that “reflects the lessons of decades of Navy experience.” The United States will keep your sailors safe.”

He proposes to do a total of 51 discounts for a total of $5 million in crypto. Toebbe said that even when they were suspected, he and his wife had cash and passports ready for them to flee the United States.

“I don’t believe any of my former colleagues would suspect me, should there be a future investigation,” he wrote, according to court documents.

However, that is not the problem. It turned out that he had been investigated while communicating with a so-called agent of a foreign government, who for all intents and purposes did not really exist, and negotiating for the amount of money he was receiving. I will never keep.

“Jonathan Toebbe continued this correspondence for several months, resulting in an agreement to sell Restricted Data in exchange for thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency,” the court papers stated.

As part of the plea agreement, Diana Toebbe agreed to help federal authorities find $100,000 that the FBI paid in cryptocurrency as part of the investigation. She must also let the authorities search her electronic devices and accounts, including on ProtonMail, and help investigators find all the classified and restricted data she still possesses. .

[Booking photos via West Virginia Regional Jail & Correctional Facility Authority]

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