MOSCOW — The lawyer for an American man being held in Moscow on suspicion of spying said on Jan. 22 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.
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Paul Whelan, a former US Marine accused of espionage and arrested in Russia, stands inside a defendants' cage during a hearing at a court in Moscow on Jan. 22, 2019.
