Northrop Grumman engineer could get death for selling classified tech

**Neo** · 24 Nov 06,, 22:09

Northrop Grumman engineer could get death for selling classified tech

Special to World Tribune.com
GEOSTRATEGY-DIRECT.COM
Friday, November 24, 2006

WASHINGTON — The United States has charged a leading military engineer with transferring classified information to China, Israel and other countries.
A federal grand jury in Honolulu has indicted Noshir Gowadia for allegedly sending military secrets to China, Germany, Israel and Switzerland. The 18-count federal indictment handed up Nov. 15 does not detail the charges. Gowadia, a 62-year-old engineer who worked for 18 years at Northrop Grumman, could face the death penalty. His trial was expected to begin in January 2007 in Honolulu.

"As charged in the superseding indictment, the defendant in this case attempted to profit from his know-how and his knowledge of sensitive military technology," Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Wainstein said.

"This case demonstrates that the DoJ [Department of Justice] will vigorously prosecute those who illegally transfer such information and services to foreign countries."

Gowadia, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in India, was also charged with sending classified U.S. stealth technology to China. Gowadia, arrested in November 2005, reportedly was involved in designing the B-2 stealth bomber's propulsion system.

The indictment said Gowadia designed for China a low-observable cruise missile exhaust system nozzle to reduce the chances of enemy detection and interception.

Gowadia was also charged with attempting to sell Germany and Israel stealth technology capable of concealing the signature of commercial aircraft.

The indictment does not say whether Germany and Israel received the stealth technology.
The indictment has sparked allegations from members of the U.S. national security community that the FBI has played down Israeli espionage. The last person arrested for spying for Israel was Jonathan Pollard, then a U.S. Navy analyst, who was sentenced to life in prison. Israel has denied any link to Gowadia.

"Our closest ally in the Middle East, a recipient of more than $2 billion a year in direct U.S. aid, is aggressively spying on us," said Jeff Stein, national security editor of Congressional Quarterly. "Not only that, Israeli spymasters are largely exempt from U.S. prosecution on espionage charges, say past and present counterintelligence agents, unless their activities cannot be ignored."

CQ quoted a senior FBI official as saying much of Israel's intelligence gathering in the United States has been overlooked. The official said only when "their activities become really egregious do they get prosecuted."
John Cole, an FBI counter-intelligence agent who retired in 2004, said he worked on 125 cases of alleged Israeli espionage from 1993 to 1995. Cole told CQ that this represented nearly half the investigations conducted in his so-called Global Unit, which until 2002 did not include China or Russia. In one case, he said, the Justice Department refused to prosecute a U.S. military civilian suspected of transferring secrets to an Israeli officer.

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**Canmoore** · 02 Dec 06,, 20:59

Just a joke...but I wonder if one of the means of execution in Hawaii is to drop you into one of the volcanoes

but seriously though.. I dont believe in the death penalty. I think its to easy.

A killer goes on a rampage and hacks 5 people, those people die a gruesome and agonizing death....and this slime ball gets to die peacefully in his sleep..

No, death penalty is waaay to easy.

Hard labour, if i was a politician, id force hard labour for the really bad ones. Make them crack boulders with a pick axe, tell the inmate that he has all the rest of his days to break that boulder down into sand. nothing more nothing else, no television, no beds, just a hard floor and that rock

joey2 · 03 Dec 06,, 10:49

Hopefully We got some of the tech too lol, either directly or through Israel.
Though Bombers propulsion system differs from a normal fighters and implementation wud be quite diff....

**gilgamesh** · 03 Dec 06,, 14:45

Originally Posted by Canmoore

Just a joke...but I wonder if one of the means of execution in Hawaii is to drop you into one of the volcanoes

but seriously though.. I dont believe in the death penalty. I think its to easy.

A killer goes on a rampage and hacks 5 people, those people die a gruesome and agonizing death....and this slime ball gets to die peacefully in his sleep..

No, death penalty is waaay to easy.

Hard labour, if i was a politician, id force hard labour for the really bad ones. Make them crack boulders with a pick axe, tell the inmate that he has all the rest of his days to break that boulder down into sand. nothing more nothing else, no television, no beds, just a hard floor and that rock

This is one guy I would subject to forcing pineapple up his pooper...every single day of his life.

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**ChrisF202** · 03 Dec 06,, 18:26

This never would have happened had they not moved off Long Island and laid off all the locals who were proud hardworking patriotic Americans.

**bonehead** · 05 Dec 06,, 15:36

Give Mr Gawada a few of Bluesman's stones while he waits in death row. Then Gawada would really have something to agonize over while he awaits the termination of his life. Secondly. we must find out what Isreal's involvement is. Not good to have an "ally" taking tech secrets from us.

**gunnut** · 05 Dec 06,, 18:44

Originally Posted by Canmoore

but seriously though.. I dont believe in the death penalty. I think its to easy.

A killer goes on a rampage and hacks 5 people, those people die a gruesome and agonizing death....and this slime ball gets to die peacefully in his sleep..

No, death penalty is waaay to easy.

Hard labour, if i was a politician, id force hard labour for the really bad ones. Make them crack boulders with a pick axe, tell the inmate that he has all the rest of his days to break that boulder down into sand. nothing more nothing else, no television, no beds, just a hard floor and that rock

There's another side to that argument though.

Sitting on the death row is an agonizing process. Imagine that you KNOW the date of your eventual demise years in advance. You're just counting down the days. There's very little you can do about that date. It might get moved back a bit. It might not.

Doing hard labor is tough. But the inmate doesn't know when he's gonna die. The uncertainty keeps us alive and going. There's always hope. Hope that the next day just might be better.

If hard labor is your thing then you might be the fan of a sheriff in Arizona. He houses his inmates in tents in the middle of Arizona desert, in summer. He tells his inmates that our soldiers in Iraq live like this so they deserve no better. He took away weight sets and TVs. Some organizatioin sued to have the TV restored. So he put the TVs back in, but only with Disney channel and the weather channel. They can look at how hot the next working day is.

I'm all for this form of punishment. Make life miserable but somewhat productive for the inmates. None of that air conditioned cells with cable TV, books, exercise yards, and all those nonsense. Of course they need to be well fed, have clean clothes, and a clean cot.