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or “drones” operating as a weapons or surveillance systems. The illegal exports involved technical
data related to an Air Force research contract that Roth provided to foreign nationals from China
and Iran. In addition, Roth carried multiple documents containing controlled military data with him
on a trip to China and caused other controlled military data to be e-mailed to an individual in China.
On Aug. 20, 2008, Atmospheric Glow Technologies, Inc. (AGT), a privately held plasma technology
company in Tennessee, also pleaded guilty to charges of illegally exporting US military data about
drones to a citizen of China in violation of the Arms Export Control Act. AGT was sentenced on
Feb. 12, 2010, and was ordered to pay a $40