RUSSIAN SENTENCED FOR SPYING FOR GERMANY.

A Russian militarycourt has sentenced an officer of the Federal Security Service (FSB), Major Vladimir Lavrentiev, to 10 years in prison for "hightreason," Russian TV reported August 15. Lavrentiev, whohad served as a counterintelligence officer in the Western Groupof Forces, admitted to having been recruited by German intelligenceand to having received DM 16,000 for the information he supplied.Judge Vladimir Smirnov said that the court will shortly hear twoadditional cases of espionage. One involves military factory managerVadim Sintsov, who is accused of espionage for Great Britain,and the other, an unnamed person accused of spying for France.

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