In this undated photo, Peruvian journalist Vicky Pelaez is seen on assignment in Lima, Peru. Pelaez and her husband Juan Lazaro were among 10 suspects arrested in a sweep in the United States on June 27 as part of an alleged Russian spy ring and charged with conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. Attorney General, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison upon conviction. (AP Photo/Diario La Republica) PERU OUT - NO PUBLICAR O USAR EN PERU
See, journalists really do have bad reputations even in the USA.
FBI says alleged Russian 'sleeper agent' Juan Lazaro admitted passing data (click title to entry - thank you)
Jul 01, 2010
...Juan Lazaro also implicated his wife, Vicky Pelaez, a New York newspaper columnist, and acknowledged that his Yonkers home had been paid for by the Russian intelligence service. The admissions came in what the FBI said was a "lengthy'' statement following the arrest of Lazaro and Pelaez in New York on Sunday.
"Although he (Lazaro) loved his son, he would not violate his loyalty to the (Russian intelligence) service, even for his son,'' federal prosecutors alleged in documents filed to keep Lazaro, Pelaez and two suspects who had been living in New Jersey, Richard and Cynthia Murphy, in jail without bail because they might flee the country....
What kind of information, because, the charges against these people don't reflect any brevity to the crimes. What was it a telephone number to Hardee's CEO or something?
I figured they were more 'corporate' spies than government spies. There is more reason to spy on the Plutocracy than the USA government actually.
