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East and West with speed; super-efficient spy swap (AP)

July 9th, 2010

Russian plane believed to be carrying candidates for a 14-person spy swap, is seen at Moscow's Domodedovo airport, on Friday, July 9, 2010. The plane carrying the colours of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations is thought to have flown from Austria on Friday, following an exchange of spies between Moscow and Washington. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)AP - It took less than a month for the largest U.S.-Russian spy swap since the Cold War to speed from an idea secretly hatched in the Oval Office to…

Russian spy claims swap in works for spies in US (AP)

July 7th, 2010

AP - Russia and the United States are working out a spy swap involving Russians recently arrested in the United States and an imprisoned nuclear researcher, his brother said Wednesday.

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Cyprus president: Not our fault spy suspect fled (AP)

July 3rd, 2010

Alleged Russian spy suspects Patricia Mills and Michael Zottoli are seated in court in Alexandria, Virginia. The dramatic arrests of 11 suspected deep-cover Russian agents, a throwback to the heydays of the Cold War, came after a threat to the decade-long US investigation, a report said Saturday.(AFP/File/Art Lien)AP - The president of Cyprus said Saturday the island’s authorities are not to blame for the disappearance of an alleged fugitive Russian spy.


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Prosecutors: NY suspect spilled Russia spy details (AP)

July 2nd, 2010

In this undated photo, Peruvian journalist Vicky Pelaez is seen on assignment in Lima, Peru. Pelaez and her husband Juan Lazaro were among 10 suspects arrested in a sweep in the United States on June 27 as part of an alleged Russian spy ring and charged with conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. Attorney General, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison upon conviction. (AP Photo/Diario La Republica) PERU OUT - NO PUBLICAR O USAR EN PERUAP - Within hours of his capture, U.S. prosecutors say, Russian spy suspect Juan Lazaro admitted his name was an alias.


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Cyprus hunts for alleged Russian spy paymaster (AP)

July 1st, 2010

Undated handout photo released from the Cyprus police on Thursday, July 1, 2010, showing alleged Russian spy Christopher Robert Metsos, 54, who they are looking for after he skipped bail and vanished. Metsos, who identified himself as a Canadian citizen, is wanted in the US on charges that he supplied money to a spy ring that authorities say operated under deep cover in America's suburbs. Metsos was arrested Tuesday in Cyprus as he tried to board a flight for Budapest, Hungary, but a Cypriot judge freed him on euro27,000 (US$33,000) bail, and he has now gone missing but is thought to still be on the Mediterranean island. (AP Photo/Cyprus Police, HO)AP - Russian money and influence have long made a splash on this Mediterranean resort island where a suspected Russian spy paymaster vanished after being allowed to walk free on…

Cyprus police seek vanished Russian spy suspect (AP)

July 1st, 2010

Undated handout photo released from the Cyprus police on Thursday, July 1, 2010, showing alleged Russian spy Christopher Robert Metsos, 54, who they are looking for after he skipped bail and vanished. Metsos, who identified himself as a Canadian citizen, is wanted in the US on charges that he supplied money to a spy ring that authorities say operated under deep cover in America's suburbs. Metsos was arrested Tuesday in Cyprus as he tried to board a flight for Budapest, Hungary, but a Cypriot judge freed him on euro27,000 (US$33,000) bail, and he has now gone missing but is thought to still be on the Mediterranean island. (AP Photo/Cyprus Police, HO)AP - A Cyprus police spokesman says authorities have stepped up their search for an alleged member of a Russian spy ring who vanished after skipping bail.


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Cypriot police say Russian spying suspect vanished (AP)

June 30th, 2010

A cameraman films the door of the hotel room believed used by Christopher Robert Metsos, the 11th suspect in an alleged Russian spy ring assigned to infiltrate American society, in the southern coastal town of Larnaca, Cyprus, Wednesday, June 30, 2010. Metsos, a Canadian citizen, was arrested at Larnaca airport on June 29 while trying to fly to Budapest, Hungary, Cyprus police said. He was later released on bail. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)AP - Cypriot police began searching late Wednesday for an alleged Russian spy wanted in the United States who vanished after being released on bail a day earlier in the…

NY suspect dubbed femme fatale of Russian spy case (AP)

June 30th, 2010

This undated image taken from the Russian social networking website 'Odnoklassniki', or Classmates, shows a woman journalists have identified as Anna Chapman, who appeared at a hearing Monday, June 28, 2010 in New York federal court. Chapman, along with 10 others, was arrested on charges of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. attorney general. The caption on Odnoklassniki reads 'Russia, Moscow. London, Stone age.' (AP Photo)AP - Anna Chapman has been called the femme fatale of a spy case with Cold War-style intrigue — a striking redhead and self-styled entrepreneur who dabbled in real estate…

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