Monday, June 27, 2011

Fleeing Russian spy: one of Moscow's most embarrassing intelligence failures since Cold War

Poteyev had access to almost all the secrets about Russia's spying

operations in the United States

significant damage to Russian security. Sentence of 25 years in prison.

hitman had been sent after the man who betrayed Russia's spying operation



The unmasking of the spy ring made Poteyev one of Russia's most senior

turncoats in decades

fled Russia by traveling to Belarus where U.S. intelligence agents spirited

him back to the United States.

NewsDaily: Fleeing Russian spy told wife to "be calm"

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