 U.S. and Russian flights involved in a 14-person spy swap landed briefly in Vienna, apparently exchanged agents, then took off again in the largest such diplomatic dance since the Cold War. Two of them, Igor V. Sutyagin and Sergei Skripal, got off there, and the remaining two, Aleksandr Zaporozhsky and Gennadi Vasilenko, flew on to Dulles International Airport just outside Washington. The 10 Russian agents arrested in the U.S. had tried to blend into American suburbia but been under watch for up to a decade by the FBI.
– The spies have been swapped, the New York Times reports. US and Russian planes carrying their respective undercover agents landed briefly at a Vienna airport, did a passenger switch, and flew back to their homelands. In return for handing over the 10, the US got four people who had been serving time in Russia. They include arms control researcher Igor Sutyagin. The AP says the handoff was straight out of a Cold War handbook. The two planes landed within minutes of each other in a remote part of the airport and ended up nose to tail. They were there about 90 minutes before taking off. “This action was carried out in the overall context of improved Russian-American relations," says the Russian Foreign Ministry.