Edmond Pope

Edmond D. Pope
Born 1944
Occupation Businessman; Captain (US Navy), retired
Spouse(s) Cheri
Website Official website

Edmond D. Pope (Russian: Эдмонд Поуп; born 1944) is a retired American intelligence officer-turned-"businessman", convicted by a Russian court in 2000 on charges of spying for the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). He was sentenced to 20 years in prison for buying-up and smuggling classified military equipment out of the country as scrap metal.[1] 253 days into his custody, Pope was pardoned by the newly elected Russian President Vladimir Putin as US government claimed that Pope had a rare form of bone cancer[2]. Pope has always maintained his innocence and continues to assert that the Russian authorities used him as a scapegoat for their broken system.[3]

In an interview with CNN, Pope spoke of a plot by unspecified people in the US, as well as the KGB and the Russian mafia, as a part of which Pope was being slowly poisoned in the Lefortovo Prison. Pope asserted that this was done with the hopes that he would eventually have to be transferred to a hospital, abducted on his way, and smuggled out of the country; he claims that Congressman John E. Peterson and his wife stopped the plot.[3]

Book

A book recounting his experience was published in 2001.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Falunin, Valeri (19 December 2001). "Secret Operations of the Military Counterintelligence (Тайные операции военной контрразведки)". Moskovskij Komsomolets (in Russian). Retrieved 18 August 2017. Interview with Lieutenant-General Head of the FSB Department for the Moscow Military District
  2. ↑ Козловский, Владимир (2000-12-07). "Дело Поупа: США негодуют". Русская служба Би-би-си. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
  3. 1 2 "Edmond Pope: Arrested and imprisoned for espionage in Russia". CNN. 5 November 2001. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  4. ↑ Pope, Edmond D.; Shachtman, Tom (14 November 2001). Torpedoed: An American Businessman's True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Imprisonment in Russia, and the Battle to Set Him Free. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0-316-34873-2.


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