New Hypersonic Missile Trials in Russia; Ex-CIA Officer Has Been Sentenced
PANAGYURISHTE, (BM) – Your briefly report on November 23 in last twelve hours from BulgarianMilitary.com:
Russia plans new trials of Tsirkon hypersonic missile before year end — source
New tests of the latest Tsirkon hypersonic missile will take place at a naval range of the Northern Fleet before the end of the year, a source in defense circles of Russia’s North-Western Federal District told TASS on Friday.
“A Tsirkon missile is expected to be launched from the White Sea before the end of the year. The specific date will be set as soon as the technical equipment is ready,” the source said.
Specialists are now making a special stand based on a pontoon, from which the latest missile will be test-fired, the source added.
The Research and Production Association of Machine-Building, which is developing the Tsirkon, declined to comment on the missile’s planned trials.
Ex-CIA officer sentenced to 19 years in prison for conspiring to spy for China
A former CIA case officer was sentenced by a federal judge in Virginia on Friday to serve 19 years in prison, after he pleaded guilty in May to conspiring to become a spy for China, federal prosecutors announced.
Jerry Chuan Shing Lee, 55, left the CIA in 2007 and moved to Hong Kong. A few years later, in 2010, he was approached by two Chinese intelligence officers who offered to pay him $100,000 and to take care of him “for life” for information he had acquired as a CIA officer.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars were subsequently paid into Lee’s personal bank account between 2010 and 2013, in exchange for his services.
“Instead of embracing that responsibility and honoring his commitment to not disclose national defense information, Lee sold out his country, conspired to become a spy for a foreign government, and then repeatedly lied to investigators about his conduct,” Zachary Terwilliger, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, said in a statement.
According to the Justice Department, the FBI conducted a search of Lee’s hotel room in Hawaii in August 2012 and discovered he had an address book and day planner containing handwritten notes he had made during his time as a CIA case officer prior to 2004.
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