10 russian spies will be swaped for American prisoners
Ten Russians suspected of spying activities and were ushered to a federal courtroom from New York are expected to plead guilty for being unregistered foreign intelligence agents and then deported and will be exchanged for prisoners held in Russia. The intelligence analysts believe that sending the alleged secret agents back to their home land forestalls a diplomatic and political advantage of the Obama administration on Russia. A swap would be most suitable for the United States-Russian relationship as president Obama is trying to determine Russia to toughen its position towards the nuclear program of Iran and to accept an American missile shield for the Eastern Europe.Minh Luong, who is a Yale University professor of international security studies, says that this will also send an important message to the people that are going to work with the United States secret services, because it will inoculate the idea that America takes care of the people that work in the secret services sector. He also says that it is preferably to avoid a trial because embarrassing things might come out in an open court and it would go on for months anyway. The first step of the exchange had already been made by the Vienna arrival of the Russian military researcher Igor Sutyagin, former convicted of espionage in 2004.
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