Print Print edition: 2012-02-11

Russian gets 13 years for passing missile data to CIA

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A Russian space engineer received a 13-year jail sentence Friday on charges of passing secret strategic missile data to the US Central Intelligence Agency in return for cash. Russia's FSB security service said test engineer Vladimir Nesterets from the northern Plesetsk cosmodrome admitted receiving payments for information about "tests on Russia's latest strategic missile systems."
The security service refused to specify the types of systems involved in the case or the size of the payments.