Moscow offers spy swap for sleeper couple
Moscow offers spy swap for sleeper couple
Moscow wants to exchange a married couple of Russian spies jailed this month in Germany for at least one convict jailed in Russia on charges of spying for the West, a report said Monday.
Russia's Kommersant newspaper said that the Russian secret services wanted to bring the pair -- known only by their code names Andreas and Heidrun Anschlag -- back to Russia after decades as "sleepers" in Germany.
In a Cold War-style exchange, Moscow would simultaneously hand over to the West at least one spy convicted of passing secrets to Berlin or its allies, the paper said.
"The process of consultations [with Germany] on a possible exchange was started only recently, after their conviction" on July 2nd, a Russian security source told the paper.
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