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The lawyer and family members of Igor Sutyagin, a Russian jailed in 2004 on charges of spying for the West, have announced his possible transfer and sparked reports of a spy swap between the US and Russia.  The Moscow Times reports that the deal would involve ten convicted agents leaving Russia, and in turn the US would hand over its 11 deep cover agents.  Apparently Mr Sutyagin is ill at ease with being handed over as part of a swap given he maintains his innocence, but ‘he basically has no other way out’, says Ernst Chyorny, executive secretary of the Public Committee in Defense of Scientists in Moscow.  See a video with highlights from his brother’s news conference here.  Reuters provides some spy swaps stories from history.  The Washington Post’s Spy Talk blog looks at the hero’s welcome some spies receive upon their return home – and the difficulties awaiting others in their post-intelligence lives.