Saturday, March 3, 2012

FORMER PENTAGON ANALYST ACCUSED OF SELLING SECRETS.(MAIN)

Byline: -- Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- A former intelligence analyst with the Pentagon's supersecret National Security Agency was charged Tuesday with selling the Soviet Union top defense secrets, including a target list for some U.S. nuclear weapons, for $60,000.

Retired Army Sgt. 1st Class David Sheldon Boone, 46, a native of Flint, Mich., was arrested Saturday in a suburban Virginia hotel. He had been lured there from his home in Germany by a sting operation in which a Russian-speaking former FBI agent posed as a spy for Russia trying to get Boone to resume spying, the …

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