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美国国家公共电台 NPR The Case Of Paul Whelan Draws Parallels To U.S. Journalist's 1986 Arrest In Moscow

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

Thirty-three years ago, NPR led its newscast with a headline that draws parallels to today.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST)

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: American journalist Nicholas Daniloff could be sentenced to death under Soviet1 law if he is convicted of espionage2. It appears he will stand trial. Daniloff, yesterday, was formally charged with spying.

MARTIN: The year was 1986. Nicholas Daniloff had been working in Moscow as a reporter when he was arrested by the KGB. It happened just days after U.S. authorities arrested a Soviet employee of the United Nations in New York. After intense negotiations3 with the Kremlin, the two men were exchanged in a prisoner swap4. More than three decades later, another U.S. citizen is now being held in Moscow. Paul Whelan was detained last week in Russia on suspicion of espionage. His family says he was there attending a friend's wedding. This, of course, comes after a Russian named Maria Butina pled guilty to a charge of conspiracy5 here in the U.S. We spoke6 with Nicholas Daniloff about the parallels he sees.

NICHOLAS DANILOFF: Well, I think the major thing is that it looks like the Russians are trying to set up a one-on-one exchange, Whelan for Butina, in Washington. And to tell you the truth, I'm surprised that they didn't arrest an American sooner than they did.

MARTIN: Why do you say that you're surprised it took as long as it did?

DANILOFF: Well, she was arrested some time ago, wasn't she? And she has been held in prison. And obviously, the Russians want to get her back as soon as possible. So one of their tried-and-true methods is to arrest an American in Moscow. Essentially7, turn that person into a hostage and then try to negotiate a one-on-one exchange.

MARTIN: The Russians stated that they caught Paul Whelan in the act of spying. That was the same accusation8 leveled against you. Did they present any evidence, in your case?

DANILOFF: Essentially, they arrested me after I had been given some material by a person that I thought was a friend and a source that's a Russian. Some of that material seemed to be photographs of Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan. And I was carrying this package with me when they arrested me. It was something that they had clearly planned for some time. Now, in the case of Whelan, what it seems to me they're trying to do is to fabricate a case of espionage against him. They're pretty good at doing that.

MARTIN: Can you take me back to the day you were arrested? What do you remember of it?

DANILOFF: I remember a great deal. I was arrested by an arrest team, thrown into a minibus, handcuffed, taken to a prison where I was then brought up into an interrogation room and interrogated9 for about four or five hours. At the end of that time, I was permitted to make a telephone call to the U.S. embassy, but it was a Saturday, and I knew that the only person I'd get at the embassy was a U.S. Marine10. So I called my wife, and she raised holy hell. She organized, essentially, a big media campaign against the Russians for doing this, and the whole thing took off. It became an enormous international incident.

MARTIN: What were the conditions you were held in?

DANILOFF: I was in a cell with a cell mate. Sometimes it was cold in that cell. The one thing I would say is that I was not tortured physically11, and I wouldn't expect Whelan to be tortured physically. But what you have to understand is that when you are snapped off a street, thrown into a prison, denied access to your embassy, you are being subjected to mental torture.

MARTIN: Vladimir Putin said during his annual address - his annual press conference, rather, an eye for an eye, or a tooth for a tooth, that that holds. But, he added, we will not arrest innocent people simply to exchange them for someone else later on. What do you make of that?

DANILOFF: Yeah. I think that's a marvelous deceptive12 statement. What the Russians are trying to do now is to fabricate an espionage case against him. When they say he was caught in an act of espionage, you know, that's a really interesting statement because to catch somebody in an act of espionage, you have to position an arrest team to witness that act of espionage.

MARTIN: It means they were surveilling him.

DANILOFF: Right. Exactly. And I imagine that that's where some of the difficulty lies.

MARTIN: Nicholas Daniloff, thank you so much for talking with us.

DANILOFF: You're welcome.


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1 Soviet Sw9wR     
adj.苏联的,苏维埃的;n.苏维埃
参考例句:
  • Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
  • Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。
2 espionage uiqzd     
n.间谍行为,谍报活动
参考例句:
  • The authorities have arrested several people suspected of espionage.官方已经逮捕了几个涉嫌从事间谍活动的人。
  • Neither was there any hint of espionage in Hanley's early life.汉利的早期生活也毫无进行间谍活动的迹象。
3 negotiations af4b5f3e98e178dd3c4bac64b625ecd0     
协商( negotiation的名词复数 ); 谈判; 完成(难事); 通过
参考例句:
  • negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
  • Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。
4 swap crnwE     
n.交换;vt.交换,用...作交易
参考例句:
  • I will swap you my bicycle for your radio.我想拿我的自行车换你的收音机。
  • This comic was a swap that I got from Nick.这本漫画书是我从尼克那里换来的。
5 conspiracy NpczE     
n.阴谋,密谋,共谋
参考例句:
  • The men were found guilty of conspiracy to murder.这些人被裁决犯有阴谋杀人罪。
  • He claimed that it was all a conspiracy against him.他声称这一切都是一场针对他的阴谋。
6 spoke XryyC     
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
参考例句:
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
7 essentially nntxw     
adv.本质上,实质上,基本上
参考例句:
  • Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
  • She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。
8 accusation GJpyf     
n.控告,指责,谴责
参考例句:
  • I was furious at his making such an accusation.我对他的这种责备非常气愤。
  • She knew that no one would believe her accusation.她知道没人会相信她的指控。
9 interrogated dfdeced7e24bd32e0007124bbc34eb71     
v.询问( interrogate的过去式和过去分词 );审问;(在计算机或其他机器上)查询
参考例句:
  • He was interrogated by the police for over 12 hours. 他被警察审问了12个多小时。
  • Two suspects are now being interrogated in connection with the killing. 与杀人案有关的两名嫌疑犯正在接受审讯。 来自《简明英汉词典》
10 marine 77Izo     
adj.海的;海生的;航海的;海事的;n.水兵
参考例句:
  • Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
  • When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时,他自愿参加了海军陆战队。
11 physically iNix5     
adj.物质上,体格上,身体上,按自然规律
参考例句:
  • He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服,心绪也很乱。
  • Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。
12 deceptive CnMzO     
adj.骗人的,造成假象的,靠不住的
参考例句:
  • His appearance was deceptive.他的外表带有欺骗性。
  • The storyline is deceptively simple.故事情节看似简单,其实不然。
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