Russian Convicted Spy Lands in Vienna in Sign of Swap
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Russian military researcher Igor Sutyagin, convicted of espionage in 2004, arrived in Vienna today in what may be the first stage of a spy swap with the U.S., a human rights activist said.
Sutyagin’s father received a call from Austrian television reporters who saw Sutyagin disembark from a plane in Vienna, where he was met by a British officer, Ernst Chyorny, head of the Public Committee to Protect Scientists, said by telephone today from Moscow. “There’s no official information,” he said.