ALLEGED US SPY PLEADS NOT GUILTY
BBC NEWS
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2009/10/29 20:50:43 GMT
An American space scientist has pleaded not guilty to two charges of
attempted spying.
Stewart Nozette, 52, was ordered to remain in custody until his trial
as he was considered too great a flight risk by the magistrate.
Prosecutors alleged that he tried to give classified information to
an undercover FBI agent posing as an Israeli intelligence officer.
Mr Nozette is accused of seeking $2m for selling the secrets.
Nozette, 52, once had top security clearance, working at the White
House on the National Space Council from 1989 to 1990, where he
developed a radar experiment that purportedly discovered water on
the Moon.
He then spent 10 years at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory, where he designed highly advanced technology.
In 2000, he set up a company that developed advanced technology for
the US government, including for the Pentagon and Nasa.