[FPSPACE] Another Spy Trial: Igor Sutyagin - Is it a serious crisis already ?

[Dwayne Allen Day]

> If you read the Post article, you will see mention of Joshua Handler, a US
> researcher who used to work for Greenpeace.  Handler is a Princeton
> Ph.D. student who has written about Russian military environmental
> problems. 

> Handler wrote about this incident early this year in the Bulletin of the
> Atomic Scientists.  I will see if I can find his article on-line.  He

I cannot find the article about Handler's detainment.  I did find an
article by him about the Nikitin case (the Russian submarine captain).  It
is at:

http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/2000/ma00/ma00handler.html

There is a sidebar article there about increased intimidation of
researchers.  I will keep searching for the article on Handler.  I think
his case is worth noting because he is clearly a grad student with ties to
very non-government organizations (Greenpeace) and a long publishing
history.  Yet the Russians still went after him.  This indicates to me
that an American graduate student doing research in Russia could also be
targeted and charged.



DDAY