Gambling Sailor Sells Navy Computers Complete With Missile Secrets
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Top-secret Cruise missile information ended up in a second-hand shop after a Royal Navy rating sold Ministry of Defence computers to fund his gambling habit, a court martial was told.
The thefts came to light only when senior American officials visited the Cruise Missile Support Agency, at Northwood military headquarters, Middlesex, concerned that a submarine exercise had not been properly supported by computer software.
Chief Petty Officer Paul Crookes, a weapons engineer, was interrogated and confessed to selling agency computers and other equipment to pay off his casino debts.
Gambling Sailor Sells Navy Computers Complete With Missile Secrets
