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a navy nuclear engineer and his wife are under arrest and accused of espionage. court documents claim the man used his top-secret clearance to send secrets about u.s. nuclear submarines to a foreign country. fbi agents intervened, posing as spies for that foreign country and arranged for a handoff of more secret materials. and this is where james bond meets austin powers meets jif. stay with me here. the justice department says fbi agents retrieved, quote, an sd card concealed within half a peanut butter sandwich at a prearranged dead-drop location. i m sorry. i don t mean to be laughing. it s serious. a quirky twist on what could be a deadly serious betrayal. this story was first reported in the washington post. i want to bring in cnn analyst phil mudd. great to see you, phil. look, you think about it. they re handing it over in a peanut butter sandwich. it s funny, but, look, these were specific details about the
night. trey yingst on the ground there. thank you. police in alaska said the man accused of recording himself murdering a woman in a hotel room has confessed to another killing and told them where to find the both body. brian stephen smith was arrested after someone found an sd card in the middle of the street. it had videos of a man laughing as he strangled a woman and told her to just die. investigators say alaska state troopers found a skull with a bullet hole where smith said he dumped the body of a second woman that he shot. a california real estate developer sentenced to a month in prison for his role in the college admission scandal. robert flax man pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy. he paid $75,000 to have a test taker boost his daughter s act score. the judge ordered him to complete 250 hours of community service and pay a $50,000 fine.
authorities are investigating were whether he s linked to other killings here is nbc s gadi schwartz. reporter: on a remote stretch of alaska highway, the discovery of a woman s body on the side of the road now being tied to a small sd card, found miles away in anchorage, labeled homicide at midtown marriott. police say a card was found by a woman who opened the car and saw 39 images and 12 videos showing horrible beating and strangulation of a woman by a man with a foreign accent. it s pretty graphic what we do believe is that the suspect recorded himself, the events that took place in the hotel room. reporter: detectives say they recognize the voice from a separate investigation, arresting 48-year-old brian stephen smith from south africa, and charging him with murder had the witness not called us after she found the sd card, we would not have been able to solve this crime as quickly as we did
mcfadden has the details reporter: edward peng is in custody tonight, a naturalized american citizen, who worked as a tour guide in san francisco, despite receiving a degree in mechanical engineering in china. the chinese are the number one intelligence threat to the united states right now. reporter: no question? no question the russians are up there for sure but the chinese are number one and also the number one threat in the political espinoage context. reporter: the criminal complaint unsealed today reads like a spy thriller, complete with dead drops and code words beginning in march of 2015 when the fbi launched an elaborate sting operation, planting a double agent inside a ring of chinese intelligence operatives in china to string the chinese along, the u.s. double agent filled sd cards with non-harmful secrets carefully curated by the u.s. government from today s complaint, put the sd card in a book, wrap it in a bag, mark the package to ed and leave it at the front