article_snippet.sent: The Armed forces put the base - which cost over £390million to construct - up for sale on Norway's version of eBay.
article_snippet.sent: eBay was eventually bought for just £3.5million by a Norwegian businessmen and was rented out to Russian research vessels which were reportedly linked to Russia's state-owned energy giant Gazprom.
article_snippet.sent: Not since the military and NATO agreed to put it on sale over the Internet, along with photographs of every nook and cranny.'