Friday, February 10, 2012

Russian Officer Convicted Of Spying For The CIA

Plesetsk Space Center. © RIA Novosti. Vladimir Rodionov

Russia Convicts Military Officer of Spying For CIA -- RIA Novosti

A Russian military district court sentenced on Friday an engineer at the Plesetsk Space Center in northern Russia to 13 years in prison on charges of state treason, the Federal Security Service (FSB) said.

Lt. Col. Vladimir Nesterets, a senior testing engineer at the center, has been convicted of selling secret data on tests of new Russian ballistic missiles.

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