• Russian Officer Convicted of Spying for CIA
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[release] MOSCOW - A military court on Friday convicted a Russian officer of providing the CIA with secret information on Russia's new intercontinental ballistic missiles and sentenced him to 13 years in prison. Lt. Col. Vladimir Nesterets pleaded guilty to passing on that classified information in exchange for money, said the Federal Security Service, the main agency that replaced the KGB. The agency said Nesterets committed treason as he worked as a senior engineer at the Plesetsk launch pad in northwestern Russia, a facility the military uses to launch satellites and test its new missile systems. The security service's terse statement did not say when Nesterets had been arrested or give any further details about his case. Russia's RIA Novosti news agency quoted the officer's wife, Irina, as saying she could not understand the guilty plea because her husband had told her he did nothing wrong and had not betrayed his country. The conviction comes amid growing tension in U.S.-Russian relations, despite President Barack Obama's efforts to overcome strains that had developed during the previous U.S. administration. Relations between Moscow and Washington have worsened over a new U.S.-led missile defense system being developed by NATO around Europe, and Russia teaming with China to block a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have urged Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been increasingly eager to challenge the U.S. as he campaigns to reclaim the Russian presidency in next month's election. He has accused Washington of driving the mass pro-democracy protests in an effort to weaken Russia. Political scientist Pavel Salin said the case against Lt. Col. Nesterets should be seen in the context of the presidential election. "The Russian authorities are pushing the idea of Russia as a besieged fortress, and in order to buttress this idea they need big, scandalous cases to show that the Western special services are active on the country's territory," Salin said. Earlier this week, Putin's protege, President Dmitry Medvedev, praised the Federal Security Service for exposing 41 foreign intelligence officers and 158 of their agents last year.[/release] [url]http://www.military.com/news/article/russian-officer-convicted-of-spying-for-cia.html[/url]
Pic of the spy : [img]http://www.ghostprotocolmissionimpossible.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/mission_impossible_4_ghost_protocol_3.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Nanamil;34681892]Pic of the spy : [img]http://www.ghostprotocolmissionimpossible.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/mission_impossible_4_ghost_protocol_3.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] No, that's Simon Pegg and Burt Reynolds.
At least they didn't execute him as most countries do with spies.
This happens every so often with Russia and the U.S. We catch a few of their spies, they catch a few of ours.
hold up a minute. this guy gives the CIA info for [i]cash[/i] and gets thirteen years in prison, meanwhile bradley manning is probably gunna get whacked
That's russia vs america for you. [editline]13th February 2012[/editline] Besides this is just supplying a different state power's foregin interactions agency with information, not some independant organization bent on the publication of them. Also russia is not at war.
[QUOTE=PassTheBong;34682557]hold up a minute. this guy gives the CIA info for [i]cash[/i] and gets thirteen years in prison, meanwhile bradley manning is probably gunna get whacked[/QUOTE] We don't know exactly what info he passed on. Also the Russian justice system is probably different than the US's justice system.
[QUOTE=Nanamil;34681892]Pic of the spy : [img]http://www.ghostprotocolmissionimpossible.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/mission_impossible_4_ghost_protocol_3.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] I like how the guy on the right acts like he's useful too, by simply holding his hand near the handle.
90 percent of the time spies are native citizens of their target country, usually important members of society who are bought out with money, because spying makes them feel important or because of ideological reasons. Edit: Same applies to "government assasins" probably. Spec ops death squads like in movies and videogames seem pretty unrealistic to me.
I remember there was that FBI guy who was giving secrets to the Russians who got life in prison, but he was doing it for very long time, did a lot of it during the cold war, and I think he was supposed to have gotten people killed, but I'm not sure.
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