Enemy of the State: Royal Navy officer faces jail after being caught trying to pass nuclear submarine secrets to Russians in MI5 stingEdward Devenney was filmed trying to leak sensitive information by British Secret Services
- The 30-year-old offered code-breaking secrets and data about submarine movements
- He will be sentenced next month after admitting breaching Official Secrets Act
By Martin Robinson
PUBLISHED: 12:50 GMT, 13 November 2012 | UPDATED: 13:33 GMT, 13 November 2012
A Royal Navy traitor caught trying to hand over top secret information to a rival country in an MI5 sting is facing jail today. Petty Officer Edward Devenney, 30, wanted to damage the armed forces by passing confidential material to the Russian Secret Services.
Northern Irishman Deveney served at HMS Rake out of Plymouth and was today remanded in custody ahead of his sentencing next month.
The submariner was bent on leaking Information including details of British code-breaking technology and the movements of Royal Navy submarines.
Details of a top secret operation undertaken by HMS Trafalgar and sailing dates for other nuclear submarines were also in his hands. But a meeting on January 28 was covertly recorded by the British security service and Devenney was arrested and charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act.
He was due to stand trial at the Old Bailey, but pleaded guilty to two of the charges he faced on the day the case against him was to begin.
During a brief hearing he admitted collecting information about cryptography technology between November 18 last year and March 7 this year.
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