Saturday, October 16, 2010

FBI sting snared e-mail from U.S. Jew offering unclassified data....

"... This marked the second sting of an American Jew by the FBI in connection with the relay of business data to Israel over the last year. In October 2009, an American Jew, approached by an FBI agent who pretended to be a Mossad officer, was indicted on charges of offering U.S. military and defense information to Israel.
Both cases appeared similar in that an FBI agent approached the Jewish target and, in the name of helping Israel, appealed for classified or proprietary data. Doxer, a 42-year-old employee in Akamai's finance department, was said to have been approached in 2007 by the FBI a year after he e-mailed an offer to the Israeli consulate in Boston. The FBI agent, who handled Doxer for 18 months, claimed he represented Israel...."

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