Noshir gowadia biography
Noshir Gowadia is a design engineer and convicted spy who worked for Northrop Corporation and was arrested in 2005 for selling classified information.
Noshir Sheriarji Gowadia (born April 11, 1944) is a former design engineer and convicted spy for several countries..
Noshir Gowadia
Former aerospace engineer and convicted spy
Noshir Sheriarji Gowadia (born April 11, )[1] is a former design engineer and convicted spy for several countries.
He was arrested in and later convicted on industrial espionage-related federal charges.
Gowadia was accused of selling classified information to China and to individuals in Germany, Israel, and Switzerland.[2][3] On August 9, , he was convicted in the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii on 14 of the 17 charges against him.[4] On January 24, , he was sentenced to 32 years in prison.[5]
Early career
Born to a Parsi family in Mumbai, India, he immigrated to the United States in and became a naturalizedU.S.
citizen. He joined Northrop in November , and continued to work there until April As a design engineer, Gowadia was reportedly one of the principal designers of the B-2 Spiritstealth bomber,[citation needed] who conceive