Russian security service searches space agency over suspected treason: TASS

[July 20, 2018]    MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Federal Security Service has searched a research facility controlled by the country's space agency Roskosmos over the suspected leaking of secrets about new hypersonic weapons to Western spies, the TASS news agency reported on Friday.

TASS cited the space agency as saying it was cooperating with FSB officers, who were investigating a case of suspected treason.

(Reporting by Andrey Ostroukh; Writing by Tom Balmforth; Editing by Andrew Osborn)

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