Suffered for the collection
 

convicted of treason was a Russian collector
 
Russian, sentenced May 13 for treason, is a renowned collector of maps. This May 14 newspaper Kommersant.
As the edition, 57-year-old Gennady Sipachev sentenced to four years in a penal colony for the sale of secret maps of Staff Pentagon, he worked as a programmer in a commercial company, not related to military secrets. However, leisure Sipachev collected geographic and topographic maps. His collection was one of the largest in the world.

Found that the U.S. military took to Sipacheva under the guise of organizing East View Cartography. According to investigators, bought from a collector secret maps the Americans planned to use to improve the pointing accuracy of cruise missiles at targets located in Russia.

FSB officers detained Sipacheva in Yekaterinburg in 2008, subsequently it was transferred to Moscow. He became the first Russian accused of treason, who went to deal with the investigation and began to cooperate with the secret services. Because of this he was given the sentence less than the minimum provided for by Article 275 of the Criminal Code (treason).

Source http://www.lenta.ru/news/2010/05/14/hobby/

Sounds marasmic - was sentenced to four years in a penal colony for the sale of secret maps of Staff Pentagon while in his spare time collecting geographic and topographic maps.
So if he "collected" secret geographical and topographical maps of the General Staff, where he took them - in the trade fair grounds Tishinka
Or by the General Staff is a flea market?
But it is quite funny - "According to investigators, bought from a collector secret maps the Americans planned to use to improve the pointing accuracy of cruise missiles at targets located in Russia."
And it is in today's satellite spy!

Actually another tale of a series of spies - philatelists and saboteurs - Esperanto ..... or write b. Which of Generals Staff blended "RAM" on poverty!

So they write: " He became the first Russian citizen accused of treason, who had gone to a deal with the investigation and began to cooperate with the secret services."

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Invented this fable to justify a sentence below the minimum level. All the intelligence services - the great romancer! His imagination is not normal, to hire an advertising agency, they can not come up here and who are in that much! CIA, for instance, invented a weapon of mass destruction to justify the war in Iraq. Well, is not it ridiculous?

:)

Judging by how many people and Bubble ugrohali - not funny!

Granted, that's not funny. So, our Russian security services over the past twenty years - the most humane. And our army - one of the most peaceful armies in the world. They fought only got five days in a foreign territory.

In Soviet times an accurate map of the territory of the USSR was secret.
Cards from other countries - DPS!
This is me as a military cartographer know.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union the secrecy with card removed and these cards can be bought in store "Атлас" in Moscow. But the inscription "секретно" before entering the store was cut with scissors.