[FPSPACE] Another Spy Trial: Igor Sutyagin - Is it a serious crisis already ?

[Phillip Clark]

> > Implication: any of you, experts in Russian Space program, or me, who
> > have learnt the details about the program from open sources, still could
> > be accused in spying against Russia simply because information about a
> > sensitive subject was aggregated.

This is not something which only happens in Russia.

About 20 years or so ago a UK writer on intelligence matters - Duncan
Campbell - was prosecuted over here for some material which he
gathered.   He had brought together various items of non-classified
information, realised the implication - which was classified over here -
and when he tried to publish (or maybe did publish, my momory is not
perfect) he was prosecuted for distributing classified information !

Same basic story, both in supposedly democratic countries.

Phillip Clark

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Phillip S Clark                                     22 Winterbourne Close
Molniya Space Consultancy                           Hastings
Compiler/Publisher, Worldwide Satellite Launches    E Sussex  TN34 1XG
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Specialist in "space archeology" - the older and more obscure the more 
interesting it is !
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