Posted on 10/16/2009 2:38:06 PM PDT by kronos77
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court on Friday jailed a Serbian national for eight years for attempting to pass secrets about Russian missile and other defense projects to a Pentagon intermediary, Interfax news agency reported on Friday.
Aleksandar Georgijevic took his orders from a U.S. citizen who worked for a firm acting on behalf of the U.S. Department of Defense, Interfax reported.
In 1998, Georgijevic attempted to collect information on a number of Russian military projects, including the Iskander tactical missiles and the R-500, a supersonic cruise missile.
But only information on the "Arena" tank protection system was passed on to the U.S. agent, Interfax reported.
The Interfax report did not explain how a Serb was in a position to gather this intelligence information. When Reuters sought clarification from Interfax, the author said he did not have any further information to add.
"During the preliminary investigation, Georgijevic admitted his guilt, in particular confirming the factual circumstances of the collection, storage and passing on of information," Interfax quoted the FSB press service as saying.
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Ping!
MicroManager in Chief, Obama, will probably drop a brick when he hears about this.
He will of course blame Bush.
(He will now use the opportunity to blame this on Bush when he stands up and pegs this as the reason Russia didn’t follow through on their promises after Obama threw our Eastern European allies to the wolves and canceled deployment of the missile defense systems.)
The spying happened in 1998 on Clinton's watch, a year before we bombed the crap out of our spy's homeland, Serbia.
Heck of a "thank you"!
“took his orders from a U.S. citizen who worked for a firm acting on behalf of the U.S. Department of Defense”
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