[FPSPACE] FW: Trial of Russian accused of spying for US adjourne

[Woods, Dave]

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> From:	Constantine Domashnev
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> Sent:	Wednesday, December 27, 2000 10:46 AM
> To:	Woods, Dave
> Subject:	Re: Trial of Russian accused of spying for US adjourne
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> Dave,
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> Could you please post it to FPSpace?
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> Thank you
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> Kostya
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> Subject: Trial of Russian accused of spying for US adjourned
> Organization: Copyright 2000 by Agence France-Presse (via ClariNet)
> Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 6:30:14 PST
> Slugword: Russia-US-spy
> Priority: urgent
> 
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>    MOSCOW, Dec 27 (AFP) - The trial of a Russian defence expert  
> accused of spying for the United States and Britain was adjourned 
> until January 9 after its first hearing Tuesday, Interfax news 
> agency reported on Wednesday. 
>    Igor Sutyagin, who worked as a senior researcher for the  
> USA-Canada Institute, has asked to have a second defence lawyer, 
> reported Interfax citing a source in the FSB (ex-KGB) domestic 
> intelligence agency. 
>    The regional court in the town of Kaluga, southwest of Moscow,  
> has not yet ruled on the request, the source added. 
>    The trial is being held behind closed doors because it deals  
> with classified documents. 
>    Sutyagin, who faces up to a 20-year jail sentence if convicted,  
> is charged with amassing and passing on information constituting 
> "state secrets" about the construction of new generation Russian 
> nuclear submarines. 
>    He has been kept in a prison in the Kaluga region since his  
> arrest on October 27, 1999. 
>    According to the FSB, Sutyagin passed on documents to a US  
> researcher who specialised in nuclear safety, Joshua Handler. 
>    The FSB says it discovered confidential papers during a search  
> of Handler's apartment in Moscow in October 1999. 
>    Handler, from Princeton University, is an expert in problems of  
> radiation and safety in the nuclear field. 
>    He met Sutyagin several times in the course of research for a  
> thesis on nuclear disarmament. Handler has since left Russia. 
>    American businessman Edmond Pope, a former US naval intelligence  
> officer, was sentenced in early December to 20 years of hard labour 
> for espionage, but was pardoned a week later by President Vladimir 
> Putin.