Researcher Is Found Guilty of Espionage
From Times Wire Reports
Researcher Igor V. Sutyagin was found guilty of espionage, Russian news agencies reported.
Sutyagin, a scholar at Moscow’s respected USA-Canada Institute, was jailed in October 1999 on charges that he sold information on nuclear submarines and missile warning systems to a British company that Russian investigators assert was a CIA cover.
Sutyagin maintained that the analyses he wrote were based on open sources and that he had no reason to suspect the company. He could be sentenced to as much as 20 years in prison.
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