Vladimir Putin wiped tears from the face of the daughter of two sleeper agents and greeted them – in Spanish.
Two Kremlin spies freed in a historic prisoner swap were so deep undercover their children didn’t know they were Russian until they arrived in Moscow.
Upon meeting the pair’s children, Putin greeted them in Spanish, the language they had grown up speaking at home given their parents’ role as spies trained to impersonate foreigners. Russian President Vladimir Putin, walks behind two convicted Russian sleeper agents with their teenage children who were deported to Russia from Slovenia as part of a landmark prisoner exchange between the US and Russia.“And you probably saw that when the children came down the plane’s steps that they don’t speak Russian and that Putin greeted them in Spanish. He said ‘Buenas noches’.”
They were sentenced to more than a year-and-a-half in prison, after which they would have been expelled from the country.
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