page_title: Jean-Louis Jeanmaire
section_title: Background and significant events
hierarchical_section_title: Jean-Louis Jeanmaire / Background and significant events
caption_attribution_description: English: en:Jean-Louis Jeanmaire is escorted out of the court house in Lausanne after having been sentenced to 18 years in prison. Français&#160;: fr:Jean-Louis Jeanmaire est escorté du tribunal de division 2 à Lausanne où il vient d'être condamné à 18 ans de prison. de:Jean-Louis Jeanmaire wird aus dem Divisionsgericht 2 in Lausanne eskortiert, wo er zu 18 Jahren Zuchthaus verurteilt wurde.
context_page_description: Jean-Louis Jeanmaire was a brigadier in the Swiss army who passed highly classified Swiss military secrets to the Soviet Union from 1962 up until his retirement at 65 in 1975.
context_section_description: He was recruited as a spy by Colonel Vassily Denissenko, the Soviet air attaché.
  He never accepted money for the information he passed to the Soviets; his motivation appeared to be the result of bitterness at being passed over for promotion.
  He was sentenced to a prison term of eighteen years but served only twelve due to good conduct.  Jeanmaire was released from prison in 1988, and died of natural causes in 1992 in Bern.
caption: Jeanmaire being escorted out of the courthouse in Lausanne after having been sentenced to 18 years in prison (1977)
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