BY STEVEN J. DUBORD

Former NASA scientist Stewart Nozette has been charged with attempting to sell classified information about U.S. military satellites to Israel.

The FBI conducted a sting operation in which an agent posed as an operative with Israel's intelligence agency, Mossad. Nozette was arrested after he offered to trade secrets for cash and an Israeli passport. His high-level security clearance had enabled him to obtain classified information from NASA, the Pentagon, and the energy department laboratory where he worked on a radar system that detected ice on the moon.

The indictment indicates that Nozette was paid a large sum of money to serve as a consultant to a defense firm owned by the government of Israel.

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