NASA scientist charged with attempted spying for Israel worked with India's Moon Mission
October 20, 2009
NASA scientist charged with attempted spying for Israel worked with India's Moon Mission
A former US government scientist arrested on Monday for espionage has a close connection to India.
Federal Bureau Investigation agents posed as Israeli intelligence officers in an undercover operation and found Nozette was willing to give them classified information.
Stewart Nozette was a top American co-investigator for India's maiden mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-1. Nozette worked on a NASA guest instrument flown onboard Chandrayaan to search for water hidden deep within the craters of the moon. The results from this instrument are yet to be revealed. Water found on the moon last month by NASA was thanks to a different instrument, the Moon Mineralogy Mapper.
India is confident that Nozette had no access to any confidential information during his work with Chandrayaan. 'Nozette did visit ISRO facilities at least twice, but he was NOT allowed into the sensitive and restricted areas. ISRO's security has not been compromised. This arrest is an internal matter of NASA,' says A. Bhaskara Narayana, Scientific Secretary to ISRO.
Nozette once had top security clearance, and developed technology for the Pentagon between 2000 and 2006.
Federal Bureau Investigation agents posed as Israeli intelligence officers in an undercover operation and found Nozette was willing to give them classified information.
Stewart Nozette was a top American co-investigator for India's maiden mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-1. Nozette worked on a NASA guest instrument flown onboard Chandrayaan to search for water hidden deep within the craters of the moon. The results from this instrument are yet to be revealed. Water found on the moon last month by NASA was thanks to a different instrument, the Moon Mineralogy Mapper.
India is confident that Nozette had no access to any confidential information during his work with Chandrayaan. 'Nozette did visit ISRO facilities at least twice, but he was NOT allowed into the sensitive and restricted areas. ISRO's security has not been compromised. This arrest is an internal matter of NASA,' says A. Bhaskara Narayana, Scientific Secretary to ISRO.
Nozette once had top security clearance, and developed technology for the Pentagon between 2000 and 2006.
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