Moscow and Washington organized the biggest and least secret spy swap in decades on Friday. As part of the swap deal, 10 Russian "sleepers" arrested in America last week were tranferred to Russia, in return for four alleged double agents being transferred to the United States..
In the setting of a sweltering airport tarmac in Vienna, the 14 agents switched planes in a simple but significant hour-long manoeuvre on Friday.
Tonight the agents had their first taste of a new life in the country of their sympathy. The Russian 10, deported from New York on Thursday, landed at Domodedovo airport south of Moscow. The four westward-bound agents touched down at Brize Norton, in Oxfordshire, Britain. It is thought that at least one of them, Sergei Skripal, a former informant for British Intelligence, MI6, will stay in Britain.
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