Japanese Porn Swap Leaks US Missile-Defense Secrets

by Brian A Kennedy | April 6, 2007 at 05:06 am

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Talk about mixing your business with pleasure: Der Spiegel, citing an unnamed Japanese paper, is reporting that three Japanese sailors are accused of swapping around a porn CD that also contained top-secret information on the US Navy's "Aegis" missile-defense system. No word yet on how the sailors got the two types of data mixed up, although all sorts of horrible puns come to mind.

Investigators said none of the men had clearance for the secret information, which included "calculating formulas" for the Aegis interceptor system as well as details on the number of targets it can track. The sensitivity of the data implies that senior officers, with higher clearance, were also involved in the swap. Police suspect that the original source of the top-secret files may have been a lieutenant commander who had been sent to the US to learn how to operate the system.