[ti:US-Russia Spy Exchange Brings Quick End to Case]
[ar:Steve Ember]
[al:IN THE NEWS ]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]This is IN THE NEWS
[00:04.93]in VOA Special English.
[00:07.72]Russia and the United States
[00:10.61]have completed the largest
[00:12.70]spy exchange since the Cold War.
[00:16.28]On Friday, at an airport
[00:19.37]in Vienna, Austria,
[00:20.91]an American plane
[00:22.50]and a Russian plane landed,
[00:25.43]parked side by side
[00:27.03]and exchanged occupants.
[00:29.67]The United States freed
[00:32.25]ten admitted Russian agents.
[00:35.34]The men and women
[00:37.23]were arrested in late June
[00:39.37]and pleaded guilty on Thursday.
[00:42.41]In exchange, Russia released
[00:44.99]four Russians serving prison
[00:47.28]sentences on charges
[00:49.47]of spying for the West.
[00:50.87]The men include Igor Sutyagin,
[00:54.75]an arms researcher who always
[00:57.73]denied the charges.
[00:59.28]Some considered him
[01:01.52]a political prisoner.
[01:02.86]The United States deported
[01:05.95]nine Russians and an American
[01:08.53]citizen born in Peru.
[01:10.87]Some raised children
[01:13.41]while living quiet lives
[01:15.45]as married couples.
[01:16.89]An eleventh suspect disappeared
[01:20.18]after being freed on bail in Cyprus.
[01:24.06]The group was accused of trying
[01:26.85]to gain information
[01:28.33]on American nuclear weapons,
[01:30.58]foreign policy and politics
[01:33.67]for the SVR -- Russia's
[01:36.60]foreign intelligence service.
[01:38.75]The way both countries
[01:41.03]are handling the issue
[01:42.63]suggests that "neither side
[01:45.17]is interested in starting a fight."
[01:47.56]So says Andrei Koztunof
[01:50.65]of the New Eurasia Foundation in Moscow.
[01:54.88]Russia's Foreign Ministry
[01:57.31]praised the exchange, saying,
[01:59.66]"The action was taken
[02:01.31]in the general context
[02:03.50]of improved Russian-U.S. relations."
[02:07.03]The ten were only charged
[02:10.11]with plotting to act
[02:11.76]as undeclared foreign agents.
[02:15.04]They were not charged
[02:16.62]with the more serious crime
[02:18.82]of espionage, so the extent
[02:21.71]of their success
[02:22.95]as spies is not clear.
[02:25.59]One of the Russians, Anna Chapman,
[02:29.22]captured attention with her looks
[02:31.76]and stories of her New York party life.
[02:35.59]Her lawyer, Robert Baum, said
[02:38.73]she had not passed secret information
[02:41.42]to Russia or received any payment.
[02:44.60]ROBERT BAUM: "The only allegations
[02:46.44]against her was that she communicated
[02:49.64]with a Russian official
[02:50.99]through a laptop to laptop
[02:53.89]communication, without the government
[02:55.98]specifying the nature of the communications."
[02:59.22]Peruvian-born Vicki Pelaez
[03:02.46]was a columnist for a Spanish-language
[03:05.29]newspaper in New York.
[03:06.99]Her lawyer said she never knew that
[03:10.67]her husband of many years, Juan Lazaro,
[03:14.25]was really a Russian
[03:15.89]named Mikhail Vasenkov.
[03:18.23]The arrests took place in four states:
[03:21.62]New York, New Jersey,
[03:24.01]Massachusetts and Virginia.
[03:26.35]The Justice Department announced
[03:28.73]the arrests on June twenty-eighth,
[03:31.22]four days after the so-called
[03:33.76]hamburger summit.
[03:35.30]President Obama and Russian President
[03:38.79]Dmitry Medvedev ate hamburgers
[03:41.72]at a restaurant near Washington.
[03:44.17]That day, Mr. Obama said
[03:47.26]the two countries had succeeded
[03:49.79]in "resetting" their relationship.
[03:53.29]The ten Russian agents cannot return
[03:56.92]to the United States
[03:58.61]without special permission.
[04:00.75]They are also barred
[04:02.95]from making any money
[04:04.55]in the United States
[04:06.34]by selling their story.
[04:08.73]In another development,
[04:10.96]Friday brought news of the death
[04:13.59]of Sergei Tretyakov,
[04:15.75]once Russia's top spy.
[04:17.89]He defected to the United States
[04:20.98]ten years ago.
[04:22.47]His wife and a friend said
[04:25.56]he died at his home in Florida
[04:28.38]on June thirteenth.
[04:30.74]They did not give the cause of death.
[04:33.33]Sergei Tretyakov
[04:35.52]was fifty-three years old.
[04:38.01]And that's IN THE NEWS
[04:39.45]in VOA Special English.
[04:42.49]I'm Steve Ember.
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