THE TIMES: Two accused Russian spies appeared in leg irons today in a Boston court, where their lawyers were granted extra time to prepare their defence in a spy case that has driven oil slicks off America’s front pages and prompted an international manhunt in the eastern Mediterranean.
Seven more of the alleged Russian agents were due in court tonight to seek bail against daunting odds as the search for their supposed ringleader continued in Cyprus, and Washington expressed its dismay over his release on Wednesday.
Christopher Metsos, the alleged bag-carrier for many of the suspected “sleepers”, was still at large after the astonishing decision by a Cypriot judge to release him on a €26,500 bond.
A dejected senior Cypriot legal official told The Times today that Mr Metsos “probably went to the north and has left from there already”, referring to the strong possibility that Metsos has crossed into the self-declared Turkish Republic. >>> Giles Whittell, Washington and Michael Theodoulou, Nicosia | Thursday, July 01, 2010
