米新型警戒機のデータ漏えい　秘密保護法違反容疑で元空自幹部逮捕―警視庁など

　米政府から提供を受けた新型早期警戒機Ｅ２Ｄの性能データを漏えいしたとして、警視庁公安部と航空自衛隊警務隊は１７日、日米相互防衛援助協定等に伴う秘密保護法違反の疑いで、元１等空佐で防衛商社社員の菅野聡容疑者（５８）＝東京都府中市美好町＝を逮捕した。公安部によると、「やっていません」と容疑を否認しているという。
　１９５４年施行の同法は、米軍から提供された防衛装備品の性能などを「特別防衛秘密」に指定し、漏えいを禁じている。
　逮捕容疑は２０１３年１月、航空自衛隊入間基地（埼玉）で、別の国内防衛商社の社員数人に対し、米側から提供されたＥ２Ｄの性能を含む特別防衛秘密をパソコン画面で示したほか、データをＵＳＢメモリーで譲り渡した疑い。（2020/01/17-18:44）

Tokyo and Air Self-Defense Force police arrested a former ASDF member Friday for allegedly leaking classified early-warning aircraft performance data provided to Japan by the U.S. government.
   So Kanno, 58, the former ASDF colonel and now an employee at a defense equipment trading firm, denied that he violated a secret protection law incidental to the Japan-U.S. mutual defense assistance agreement, the Metropolitan Police Department's Public Safety Bureau said.
   The MPD bureau and the Air Police Group suspect that Kanno showed information including data on the performance of the E-2D, the new-type early warning aircraft, on a personal computer display to another defense equipment trader's employees and gave them a memory stick containing the information.
   Since the law took effect in 1954, performance data and other information on defense equipment, such as aircraft, vehicles and weapons, have been classified as special secrets.
   According to the Tokyo police, Kanno was a section chief at the ASDF's Air Development and Test Command responsible for deploying troops and managing them at the time of the incident. He and the trading firm officials had known each other.