Navy officer in spying scandal sold secrets to Russians

This article talks about a Canadian forces sub-LT who walked into the Russian embassy offering to sell secrets to the Russians military intelligence agency.  This marks the beginning of a espionage career that lasted nearly four years after the naval spy plead guilty for spying earlier today.  Jeffery Paul Delisle plead guilty in a Halifax Wednesday for breaching of trust and two accounts of passing information to a foreign country.  Delisle is said to have walked into the embassy wearing a red ball cap and civilian clothing, he then flashed his Canadian military identification and asked to meet with someone from the Russian military.  He would go to work everyday with a thumb hard drive and download reams of information and would sent hat monthly for years and years, he would only get 3000 dollars a month.  In 2009 Delisle wanted to stop dealing with the Russians, the Russians then responded by sending him a picture of his daughter walking to school that may have scared him.  Shortly after this, they asked him to meet with the GRU in Brazil, they told him they wanted to be a "pigeon" spying for them in a certain area that happened to be Canada.  Delisle agreed and was handed 50,000 dollars in cash, when they couldn't get that across the border, he went with 4 debit cards of 10000 dollars and 10000 dollars cash.  The security was alarmed by let him through, but then notifying the military who raided his house.  They found lots of evidence and his sentence goes up to 5 years in prison.  

I am very surprised reading an article like this, you would never think someone working for your military system as someone who is going to hurt his country, most people view them as people fighting for are rights but in this case he was really hurting our country and helping another.  I am also very surprised that he was able to do this for so long without being caught, the Russians obviously got lots of valuable information and for such a low price for such an important thing. Also the fact that the Russians payed for him to go down to Brazil and gave him 50,000 dollars to continue doing this is really quite shocking.  I would never expect another country to do this kind of thing as it really was a good thing this man was finally caught.  The security at the airport really did a great job, the noticed something was up when this man brought enormous amount of money over the border and did the right thing they leads to a safer place for  our country.  

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2012/10/10/ns-delisle-spy-hearing.html