A German court has jailed a married couple convicted of spying for Russia.
Andreas and Heidrun Anschlag - known only by the fake names on the Austrian passports they used to enter Germany - were sentenced to six-and-a-half years and five-and-a-half years respectively.
The pair, thought to be in their 40s or 50s, were arrested in October 2011 and charged with spying for more than 20 years.
They were planted in the former West Germany in 1988 by the Soviet Union's KGB and later worked for its successor the SVR.
The couple, posing as middle class Austrian citizens who were born and grew up in South America, had obtained and passed on Nato and EU political and military secrets to the Russians.
"Like wheels in a clockwork, for better or worse, they were dependent on each other for the success of the mission," said presiding judge Sabine Roggenbrod.
The house in Marburg where the couple last lived Andreas Anschlag studied engineering and worked in the car industry while Heidrun was a housewife.
Even their daughter had no idea about their double lives, according to reports.
The couple left the documents in "dead-letter boxes", such as under certain trees, from where they were picked up by employees of the Russian consulate general in Bonn.
They communicated with Russia via short-wave radio, text messages sent on a satellite phone and hidden messages in comments in YouTube videos under agreed names, the court heard.
The defendants, whose alias surname means "attack" in German, had refused to confirm any details about their identity, but their defence lawyer said they had Russian citizenship.
"The court could not uncover your true identities," Roggenbrod told the two accused. "We don't know where you were born or your real names."
But she stressed: "The court is convinced that the accused knew right until the end exactly which master they served and for what purpose."
A Dutch court in April sentenced a Dutch diplomat to 12 years in prison for delivering confidential EU and Nato documents to Russian agents.
The Anschlags allegedly compiled the information he gathered and sent it on to Russia's intelligence agency.
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