CNN) -- A U.S. Navy civilian contractor has been charged with trying to
sell
personal information about thousands of military personnel and reservists
to
a person he thought was a foreign spy, the FBI said.
Randall G. Craig Jr., 41, was scheduled to appear before a federal
magistrate in Houston, Texas, on Wednesday after his arrest last week,
said
FBI spokeswoman Shauna Dunlap.
She added that no information was compromised during the agency's
investigation.
Craig was arrested Friday, she said.
A grand jury in Houston indicted him Tuesday on charges of aggravated
identity theft and exceeding authorized computer access for personal gain.
According to the indictment, Craig attempted to sell the names and Social
Security numbers of thousands of Navy service members "to a person he
believed to be of Israel Mossad Intelligence service
"This was an undercover operation and not an actual spy," she said
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