Egor was arrested in 1999, convicted in 2004 and then sentenced to 15 years in 2005 for espionage. essentially what he was doing was sending information that he gathered as a nuclear weapons expert to a british company called alternative futures that turned out to be a cia front. now, he has been in prison since then and it appears now that there is some discussion between the united states and russia for a swap. what would be the incentive for the united states to do this swap? well, certainly, this is somebody who, if indeed, it is as the russians portrayed it, somebody who was a spy for the united states and somebody who was passing real information rather than the influence that the spies here were trying to get. this would be a pretty good swap for the united states. and, remember also, that the ten spies that are alleged spies ....