MOSCOW — The lawyer for an American man being held in Moscow on suspicion of spying said on Tuesday that his client was given a flash drive containing Russian “state secrets” before he was arrested, but did not know he had them and had not looked at them. His family insisted that he was entrapped and denied that he is guilty of espionage. Paul Whelan, a former U.S.
Suspected Spy Had Classified Docs
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