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Russia and the United States handed over 10 and 4 suspected spy suspects to each other in the Austrian capital Vienna on the 9th. This is the largest spy exchange operation between the United States and Russia since the end of the Cold War. At noon on the 9th, a small Russian plane and a U.S. military transport plane successively landed at Vienna International Airport. According to reports, 10 Russian spies arrested in the United States were carried on U.S. aircraft, while 4 Russians who provided intelligence were exchanged on Russian aircraft.
US-Russia spy exchange incident
- Chinese name
- US-Russia spy exchange incident
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- event
- Place
- Austrian capital Vienna
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- USA, Russia
- Russia and the United States handed over 10 and 4 suspected spy suspects to each other in the Austrian capital Vienna on the 9th. This is the largest spy exchange operation between the United States and Russia since the end of the Cold War. At noon on the 9th, a small Russian plane and a U.S. military transport plane successively landed at Vienna International Airport. According to reports, 10 Russian spies arrested in the United States were carried on U.S. aircraft, while 4 Russians who provided intelligence were exchanged on Russian aircraft.
- A U.S. White House official broke the news on the 9th that the U.S. intelligence service spotted 10 Russian "spyers" 10 years ago and had already exchanged spies with the "Russian Abacus" of the spies before they started catching people.
- The official said that as early as 10 years ago, U.S. intelligence agencies had targeted 10 Russian agents. The United States has secretly monitored these people for many years. The United States learned that some 10 people planned to leave the United States and decided to take action.
- Officials from the Central Intelligence Agency, the FBI and the Department of Justice reported to the White House in February, including personal information about the agents. The White House held several meetings in the following weeks to discuss solutions.
- The intelligence department and the Ministry of Justice decided to arrest people in early June. On June 11, President Obama was informed of specific action plans, including how to make arrests, what crimes to prosecute, and possible impact on US-Russian relations. At that moment, the United States set about brewing personnel exchanges with Russia.
- On June 24, Obama talked with visiting Russian President Demedvedev at the White House, and then had lunch at a hamburger. White House officials said Obama had not filed an agent case with Medvedev at the time.
- On June 27, the United States made arrests at several locations and seized 10 Russian agents.
- US State Department spokesman Toner said on the 8th that the "fast and comprehensive resolution" of this case is based on national security and humanitarian considerations. The long-term imprisonment of these 10 spies in the United States will not bring significant benefits to national security, and the United States can use this opportunity to release the four people who have been long-term imprisoned in Russia, especially some of them are in bad health . On the same day, after 10 Russian spies acknowledged their identities and pleaded guilty in a US court, they were deported from the United States and will never be allowed to set foot in the United States again. Russian President Medvedev signed a decree on the 8th to pardon four US spies convicted in Russia in exchange for 10 Russian spies arrested in the United States. The Kremlin said in a statement that all four had submitted pardon requests and pleaded guilty.
- When the US side opened a trial for the spy case, the 10 defendants all acknowledged that they were special agents stationed in the United States by foreign governments and gave their real names. In exchange, the U.S. judiciary has dropped previous charges of money laundering against them. In addition, Russian media analysis believes that the end of the espionage event indicates that the relationship between Russia and the United States has not been affected. A senior official of the Russian President's Office stated to the outside that the exchange of spies became possible thanks to the new atmosphere in Russia-US relations and the mutual understanding and trust between the presidents of the two countries. From this perspective, Russia-US relations have even made some progress.
- Russia's Foreign Intelligence Agency and the US Central Intelligence Agency are conducting related exchanges in accordance with procedures. The starting point for the exchange of spies is "developing a constructive partnership" and "the guidelines formulated by the Russian and American leaders (resumption of Russian-US relations) will be implemented", making people believe that the process of improving relations established by the leaders of the two countries will continue. "An attempt to deviate from this policy will not succeed."
- Markov, director of the Russian Political Research Institute, believes that the exchange of spies shows that the atmosphere of cooperation in Russia-US relations is better than the atmosphere of confrontation. The way Russia and the United States deal with espionage cases is no longer the mode of thinking and action during the Cold War. In order to prevent the bilateral relationship from being adversely affected by the "espionage storm", Russia and the United States quickly completed relevant legal procedures, allowed accused persons to leave the country, and adopted the "exchange in a third country" method that was repeatedly adopted during the Cold War to close the case. Kovalev, former director of the Russian Federal Security Service, believes that the efforts of Russia and the United States to eliminate the effects of espionage cases are completely correct, and this action will promote further improvement of bilateral relations. However, the US commented that the problems in Russia-US relations still exist, and it will take time and effort to resolve them.
- The spy case took only 10 days from exposure to resolution. From the current situation, spies who have been lurking in Russia and the United States for a long time have not obtained "intelligent intelligence." Most of their so-called intelligence can be obtained on the Internet. Nevertheless, the cracking of this intelligence network shows that Russia-US relations still have a "cold war" flavor, and the timing of the spy case exposure is still a topic of speculation. However, from the perspective of the settlement, the Obama administration obviously does not want the espionage case to excessively harm the just-restarted Russia-US relations.
- Russia exchanges a group of "idiot spies"
- The United States and Russia have exchanged spies to resolve the possible tension between the two countries, but the Russian media believe that Russia has sacrificed too much in this transaction, and all are "idiot spies".
- Russia's New Network reported on the 9th that many people in Russia believe that the spies exchanged between Moscow and Washington are of "different quality." The 10 Russian spies surrendered by the United States did not even sue in court, and Russia paid too much.
- Russia's "Moscow Communist Youth League" argues that it agreed to exchange on behalf of the Russian side to acknowledge the fact that spies were installed in the United States. But these spies were very unprofessional and "close to the level of idiots", and Moscow also acknowledged that the protagonists of these popular comedy films are the advanced units of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Agency. The best agents who really serve Russia are still in American prisons. For example, Ames, a former CIA staff member who worked for Russia, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1994. Another example is the US National Security Agency agent Lipka who was sentenced to 18 years in 1996, and the US Air Force Institute designer Lesenkin who was sentenced to 27 years in 1996. The newspaper believes that the reason why Russia's Foreign Intelligence Agency will not rush to exchange the above agents is because they have no relatives in the bureau.
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