WHAT A HEEL: Prof Passed Sensitive Plasma Physics Secrets
Retired University of Tennessee professor J. Reece Roth has been sentenced to four years in prison on 18 counts of conspiracy, fraud and violating the Arms Export Control Act for passing sensitive information from a U.S. Air Force contract to two research assistants from China and Iran, reports The Associated Press:
The case marked the first time the government used the export control act to crack down on the distribution of restricted data, not hardware, to foreigners in a university setting.
Prosecutors said Roth allowed the two graduate students to see sensitive information while they researched a plasma-guidance system for unmanned aircraft. …
The charges involved work performed from 2004 to 2006 on two Air Force contracts by Roth; graduate students Xin Dai of
Roth is appealing his conviction.
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