A married spy couple have been jailed in Germany after being found guilty of espionage for their Russian paymasters for 25 years.<\/p>\n
The couple, codenamed Andreas and Heidrun Anschlag, are said to have settled in former West Germany on false passports a quarter of a century ago.<\/p>\n
They began their snooping career in the same city – Dresden – where Russian leader Vladimir Putin was posted for the KGB.<\/p>\n
The duo are accused of first feeding information about West Germany to the former Soviet Union, then the reunited land to the Russian Republic.<\/p>\n
‘The accused had the task of gathering information about the political and military strategy of the EU and NATO,’ said the prosecutor at their trial, as well as ‘security-relevant political aspects of relations between Germany, the EU and NATO to Russia.’<\/p>\n
Investigators said it was due to information gleaned from the interrogations in America that led to the arrests of the spy duo in Germany.<\/p>\n
Two Austrian passports, both said to be forgeries made by the counterfeiters of the SVR, were seized when they were taken into custody.<\/p>\n
A court in Stuttgart gave Andreas Anschlag six years and six months, and Heidrun five years and six months.<\/p>\n
Their daughter was born and raised in Germany and knew nothing of their activities – nor of their true identities before they became spies.<\/p>\n
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