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TONIGHT A FORMER NAVY
SAILOR ARRESTED FOR
ATTEMPTING TO SELL
GOVERNMENT SECRETS TO THE
RUSSIANS WILL STAY IN
BEING.
THIS AFTERNOON
-- A JUDGE DENIED BOND TO
39 YEAR OLD ROBERT
HOFFMAN.
THE JUDGE SAID HE'S A
DANGER TO THE COMMUNITY,
AND A FLIGHT RISK.
10 ON YOUR SIDE'S ANDY
FOX IS STANDING BY LIVE
AT THE NORFOLK
FEDERAL COURTHOUSE.
INTERESTING
TESTIMONY DURING THIS
AFTERNOON'S HEARING.
ACCORDING TO THE
GOVERNMENT ROBERT HOFFMAN
MADE THREE DEAD-
DROPS OF INFORMATION
CONSIDERED CLASSIFIED.
(VO) ROBERT HOFFMAN
ALLEGEDLY
DROPPED INFORMATION THREE
SITES FOR
PEOPLE HE THOUGHT WERE
RUSSIAN AGENTS.
THAT INFORMATION
REMEMBERED AND DOCUMENTED
BASED ON HIS 20 YEAR
NAVY CAREER DEVELOPING
HIS SKILLS TRACKING
SUBMARINES AS A
CRYPTO-LOGIC TECHNICIAN
FBI
AGENTS HE THOUGHT WERE
RUSSIAN AGENTS.
HE GAVE THEM INFORMATION
THAT HE SAID WOULD "AID
THE RUSSIAN NAVY
AND HE COULD HELP THEM DO
BETTER" HE SAID HE WANTED
TO BE PAID, AND PAID
MORE IF IT INVOLVED
KILLING SOMEONE. HE
WANTED TO PAID MORE IF IT
INVOLVED
FOREIGN TRAVEL, AND SAID
HE COULD GET MORE
INFORMATION IF HE
HAD A JOB WITH THE
GOVERNMENT OR A DEFENSE
CONTRACTOR
THEN ON OCTOBER 31ST,
HOFFMAN WENT TO THE FBI
AND TOLD THEM HE
HAD BEEN HAVING THESE
MEETINGS WITH THE RUSSIAN
AGENTS, AND HE
WANTED TO ACT AS DOUBLE
AGENT AND ADMITTED HE HAD
GIVEN CLASSIFIED
INFORMATION. HOFFMAN'S
ATTORNEY JAMES
BROCCOLETTI. (SOT IT GOES
TO THE SAYING CHARCTER IS
HWO YOU ARE WHEN NO ONE
IS WATCHING. HE DIDN'T
KNOW THE FBI
WAS WATCHING HE GOES TO
THEM AND SAYS SOEMTHING
BAD IS HAPPENING I
THINK IT IS IMPORTANT.
"WELLTHE INFORMATION
PRFERRED BY THE FROM THE
TME HE WENT TO THE FB TO
THE TME HE WAS
ARRESTED AS MR. KIMBALL
THERE WAS NOTHNG HE DID
THAT WAS FRONT OR
LLEGAL. SO WE WILL JUST
HAVE TO SEE HOW THAT
PLAYS OUT N THE SCHEME
OF THNGS)) RUNS: 30