A U.S. plane landed near Washington after completing a Russian-U.S. spy swap in Austria on Friday, The Telegraph said on Saturday.
Earlier on Friday, the Kremlin said that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev had pardoned four individuals imprisoned in Russia for allegedly spying for the United States.
The pardoned individuals are Alexander Zaporozhsky, Gennady Vasilenko, Sergei Skripal and Igor Sutyagin, the former head of the military technology and economics department at the Institute of the United States and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
"A plane carrying the four on Friday night landed at Dulles airport, outside Washington, after stopping briefly at Brize Norton air base in Oxfordshire. It was not known how many of the four were still on board the plane when it arrived in the U.S.," the paper said on its website.
"It had been reported that at least one of the four, a former informant for MI6, would stay in Britain," the publication says.
On Friday evening ten convicted Russian spies flown out of Vienna on Friday after arriving on a charter flight from New York. They arrived to Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport on a Russian Emergency Ministry plane.
MOSCOW, July 10 (RIA Novosti)
