Breaking News - Russian couple accused of spying in Germany

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By Gareth Jones, ReutersBERLIN -- A married  couple went on trial in Germany on Tuesday accused of handing hundreds of  sensitive NATO and European Union documents to Russia during a two-decade spying  career that continued well beyond the end of the Cold War.

Follow @NBCNewsWorld  Federal  prosecutors accuse Andreas Anschlag and his wife Heidrun -- suspected Russian  citizens whose names are aliases -- of entering West Germany in 1988 with forged  Austrian passports and fabricating a suburban middle-class existence to cover  their espionage.

So perfect was the subterfuge that even their own  daughter did not know of their spying, German media reported.

Russian  President Vladimir Putin worked for the Soviet intelligence agency the KGB in  East Germany in the 1980s when the couple are accused of having started their  career.




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