Engineer jailed for selling missile data to the CIA

A Russian space engineer received a 13- year jail sentence Friday for passing secret strategic missile data to the U. S. 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.” Analysts called the security breach significant because Russia’s armed forces use the site to test and launch every type of missile in production and development.