There are other articles where he states his plan to reveal secrets started with him looking to meet and marry an American woman, to get citizenship and get into this country.
The Navy had better tighten up security as to who gets to be a civilian engineer working on highly-classified jobs.
Mostafa Ahmed Awwad, a Saudi-born national, now married to an American woman he met in Cairo seven years ago, incredibly had access to key plans in the construction of the mighty aircraft carrier Gerald Ford,
http://www.dailypress.com/news/crime/dp-nws-navy-engineer-bond-hearing-20141210-story.htmlhttps://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2015/november/navy-engineer-sentenced-for-attempted-espionageAll the while, there was no doubt that Awwad understood that the “Egyptian representative” he was dealing with would be passing the stolen information to the Egyptian government.
Why did he do it? Awwad told our undercover agent that he was motivated to use his position to steal nuclear and defense secrets from the U.S. to aid Egypt in building a more robust defense. And at one point, he said he wanted to go to Egypt to meet personally with high-ranking intelligence and military officials to get a better idea on exactly what information they would want him to collect.
