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10 Russian spy suspects plead guilty

Updated on: 09 July,2010 07:42 AM IST  | 
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Ten suspected Russian sleeper spies pleaded guilty yesterday in a Manhattan courtroom and could be out of the country by sundown sent home in a swap with Moscow for four of Washington's blown secret agents.

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Ten suspected Russian sleeper spies pleaded guilty yesterday in a Manhattan courtroom and could be out of the country by sundown sent home in a swap with Moscow for four of Washington's blown secret agents.

Some of their US-born kids have reportedly already been packed off to Russia.

The 10 agents busted last week after years of being followed and bugged by the FBI were freed and ordered deported in exchange of four Russians imprisoned for passing secrets to the CIA.

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Judge Kimba Wood sentenced all 10 to time served 11 days and ordered them deported. They can never come back, she said.

In exchange, nuclear scientist Igor Sutyagin who was arrested for spying 1999 and three Russian military colonels who acted as double agents for the CIA until their cover was blown, were to be freed.




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