Vision Airlines spy swap in Austria

Vision Airlines carried 10 convicted Russian agents who pled guilty for gathering intelligence to Vienna, Austria on Friday. These agents who failed to register as foreign agents were exchanged for 4 US spies. Attorney General Eric Holder said, the reason for not charging the Russian sleeper agents was really simple, they didn’t pass classified information to the Russian secret service. The exchange of the prisoners took approximately one hour, and there was no formal announcement of any kind, after that the Vision Airlines airplane landed at a British Military base somewhere in the United Kingdom, and the Russian plane carried the 10 spies back to Moscow.

This was almost the biggest swap of agents since the cold war era, and this whole procedure took a really short time, since the Russian agents were arrested only about 12 days ago. President Obama ordered the quiet collaboration over this whole scandal to help the Russian-American relations. It’s also interesting that the U.S. government used the plane of Vision Airlines, a commercial airline’s plane to take these prisoners to the other half of the globe, and not a military plane.

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