Butina said that I wasn’t spying, and wanted to bring together Russia and the United States
Imprisoned in Alexandria (Virginia) Maria Butina, within a month on the phone dictated his story to journalist James Bamford from the New Republic. Today her story was finally published. Contrary to the admission made at the time of arrest, she denied any involvement in espionage, claiming that he just wanted through personal relationships to bring together the US and Russia. Butina’Maria’s boyfriend Paul Erickson has just been arrested in the…