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Russian gets 13 years for aiding CIA

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  February 11, 2012

An engineer at a Russian space facility primarily used for military rocket launches and ballistic missile research was sentenced to 13 years in prison yesterday for passing on classified military information to the CIA, according to Russia’s domestic intelligence agency, the FSB. A curt statement posted to the FSB website identified the engineer as Vladimir V. Nesterets, a lieutenant colonel who worked at the Plesetsk space center, a military installation in the northwest of the country close to the port city of Archangelsk.

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