“The Spy Who Was Not”: Maria Butina reads an excerpt from her book on imprisonment in the USA
2020-07-15T08:03:20.619Z
On July 15, 2018, Maria Butina turned from an ordinary student into prisoner No. 356794. The American side accused her of "conspiring to work illegally as a foreign agent." The girl spent in prison in the United States part of the term - 467 days, after which she returned to her homeland. Today, July 15, 2020, she is the first to read an excerpt from her book, with the working title “Maria Butina: A Spy That Never Was,” based on prison diaries of 1200 pages. “All names and events are real, with the exception of the names of prison guards and prisoners. I replaced them with fictitious ones, so as not to endanger these people’s danger. For the first time, my reader will find out why I moved to the prison bunk from school, how I ended up in an American prison, and why the FBI will forever protect the materials of this case under the heading “secretly,” Maria said.
Source: russiart