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Russian Military Officer Jailed For 13 Years For Spying For U.S.

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Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) says a military officer has been convicted of passing missile secrets to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

The FSB said Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Nesterets was sentenced on February 10 to 13 years in jail by a military court.

It said Nesterets pleaded guilty to charges of passing classified information about missile tests to the CIA for "cash payments."

The FSB said that Nesterets worked as a senior engineer at Plesetsk military launch site in northwestern Russia.

The facility is used both for launching satellites into orbit and for testing missiles.

The FSB statement didn't say when Nesterets was arrested or give any further details.

Compiled from agency reports
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by: Konstantin from: Los angeles
February 11, 2012 03:50
According to the Russian TV news, (Sovintel),
wife of the sentenced say he was pressured to confess.
He didn't have a lawer, because they had no money to
afford one, thus they also cannot appeal...
In USA lawers are payed by government,
if one have no money to hire one.

My question is also:
Did he sale information of the near facts of missle or nuclear
tests?
That should be to a degree a matter of mutual informing by
both superpowers...
Or did he sale combat characteristics, or design secrets?
That would be a legitimate secret and quite serious...

But than again, with Russia threatening its neighbours,
like Georgia and the rest of former USSR and Eastern Europe
in 2008 with termonuclear bombing if they would resist the
invading Russian armies of agressors-conquerors,
the degree of legitimacy of such secrets would
dominish...

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