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Russia, U.S. exchange spies in biggest handover since Cold War
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The U.S. and Russia orchestrated the largest spy swap since the Cold War, exchanging 10 spies arrested in the U.S. for four convicted in Russia in a tightly choreographed diplomatic dance July 9 at Vienna's airport.
Two planes, one from New York's LaGuardia Airport and another from Moscow, arrived in Vienna within minutes of each other and parked nose-to-tail at a remote section on the tarmac, where they spent about an hour and a half before departing just as quickly.
The swap completed, a Russian Emergencies Ministry Yakovlev Yak-42 plane left Vienna reportedly carrying the 10 people deported from the U.S. Shortly afterward, a maroon-and-white Boeing 767-200 that brought those agents in from New York took off, apparently with four Russians on board who had confessed to spying for the West. (AP)
米露、冷戦後最大のスパイ交換
米露両国政府は7月9日、スパイ容疑で米司法当局に訴追された10人のロシア人スパイと、欧米のスパイとしてロシアで服役していた4人をウィーンで交換した。今回のスパイ交換は冷戦後では最大規模となる。
Shukan ST: July 23, 2010
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