FBI: Stealth Engineer Sold Military Secrets
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An engineer who helped design the B-2 stealth bomber (search) has been arrested and accused of selling U.S. military secrets involving the aircraft to a foreign country, the FBI said.
Noshir S. Gowadia, 61, of Haiku was arrested Wednesday.
According to the FBI, Gowadia in 2002 faxed a document detailing infrared technology classified top secret by the Air Force to a foreign official. The FBI (search) would not identify the country and did not disclose how much he allegedly received.
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Gowadia had been an engineer with Northrop Grumman Corp. (search) from 1968 to 1986 and had helped design the radar-evading B-2.
He was jailed without bail on a charge of willfully communicating national defense information to a person not entitled to receive it, an offense punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
It was not immediately known whether he had a lawyer.
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According to state records, Gowadia and his wife own an engineering and consulting company.