A Royal Navy submariner has admitted meeting two people he
thought were Russian secret agents to discuss the movements of
British nuclear submarines.  Petty officer Edward Devenney, 30,
from Northern Ireland, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey today to
gathering details of encryption programmes and misconduct in a
public office.  He contacted a foreign embassy to try to pass to
Russia "crypto material" - programmes used to encrypt secret
information - and information linked to the operation of HMS
Trafalgar and two nuclear submarines.  But the two people he
eventually met with were from British secret services.  Devenney
appeared at the Old Bailey today and admitted collecting
information for a purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests
of the state between November 18 last year and March 7 this
year.  He gathered details of programmes used to encrypt secret
information which could be useful to an enemy.  Devenney denied
a second count of communicating information to another person
and this will not be purs