Edmond Pope

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]

Edmond D. Pope
Born1946 (age 74–75)
OccupationBusinessman, retired naval captain
Spouse(s)Cheri
WebsiteOfficial website

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] Russian knowledge of a "high speed underwater" vehicle was originally obtained from an unclassified text book published in the mid-1960s in the U.S. (see references)

See also

References
  1. Falunin, Valeri (December 19, 2001). "Secret Operations of the Military Counterintelligence (Тайные операции военной контрразведки)". Moskovskij Komsomolets (in Russian). Retrieved August 18, 2017. Interview with Lieutenant-General Head of the FSB Department for the Moscow Military District
  2. Козловский, Владимир (December 7, 2000). "Дело Поупа: США негодуют". Русская служба Би-би-си. Retrieved March 9, 2012.
  3. "Edmond Pope: Arrested and imprisoned for espionage in Russia". CNN. November 5, 2001. Retrieved August 18, 2017.
  4. Pope, Edmond D.; Shachtman, Tom (November 14, 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.
  • Greiner, Leonard (editor of collection of technical papers). Underwater Missile Propulsion; A Selection of Authoritative Technical and Descriptive Papers; Copyright 1967, Compass Publications, Inc. LCCN 67--31690.


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