U.S.: Death of a Russian Defector

The June 13 death of Sergei Tretyakov, a former high-level Russian intelligence officer who defected to the United States, was announced by Washington's WTOP Radio on July 9. The timing of the death, just days before the arrests of 10 alleged Russian spies, leads to suspicion that the two events are somehow connected, though Tretyakov's wife has said he died naturally of a cardiac arrest.