BREAKING: American Scientists Indicted For Giving Nuclear Weapons Secrets To Venezuela

The Department of Justice is indicting an American couple, one of which is a former scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, for allegedly giving nuclear secrets to someone they “believed to be an official from the government of Venezuela.” The 30-page indictment tells of an undercover sting operation in which the couple gave highly sensitive secrets to an undercover FBI agent posing as an official representative from Venezuela. The indictment also assures that the New Mexico couple never gave information to the Hugo Chavez-led Latin American country, only to the undercover federal official.

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