A Moscow military district court found former Russian intelligence officer Colonel Alexander Poteyev, who helped U.S. authorities disclose a Russian spy ring last summer, guilty of high treason and sentenced in absentia to 25 years in prison. The court also deprived Poteyev his rank of colonel and stripped him of his awards. Ten Russians were arrested in the United States in June 2010 on suspicion of espionage and exchanged for four men accused of espionage in Russia. Poteyev, who was secretly working for the CIA, fled to the United States shortly before the arrest of the sleeper agents was made public. “Poteyev uncovered Russian sleeper agents . . . , he also deserted,” the verdict said. One of the witnesses was Anna Chapman, a sleeper agent who became a media star after returning to Russia.
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