A Royal Navy submariner on a Faslane-based vessel has admitted meeting two people he thought were Russian secret agents to discuss the movements of British nuclear submarines.
A Royal Navy submariner on a Faslane-based vessel has admitted meeting two people he thought were Russian secret agents to discuss the movements of British nuclear submarines.
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Petty officer Edward Devenney, 30, was a submariner on HMS Vigilant, a Trident nuclear submarine, when he decided to pass on the classified information. Yesterday at the Old Bailey, Devenney, who is from Northern Ireland, admitted breaching the Official Secrets Act and misconduct in a public office by collecting classified coding programmes that could be useful to UK enemies.
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