# Edmond Pope
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{{Short description|Retired American spy}}
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| occupation = Businessman, retired naval captain
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'''Edmond D. Pope''' ({{langx|ru|link=no|Эдмонд Поуп}}) is a retired American [intelligence officer](/source/intelligence_officer)-turned-businessman, convicted by a [Russian court](/source/Russian_court) in 2000 on charges of spying for the U.S. [Defense Intelligence Agency](/source/Defense_Intelligence_Agency) (DIA). He was sentenced to 20 years in prison for buying up and smuggling [classified](/source/Classified_information) [military equipment](/source/military_equipment) out of the country as [scrap metal](/source/scrap_metal).[{{cite news|last1=Falunin|first1=Valeri|authorlink1=Valeri Falunin|title=Secret Operations of the Military Counterintelligence (''Тайные операции военной контрразведки'')|url=http://www.fsb.ru/fsb/smi/interview/single.htm%21_print%3Dtrue%26id%3D10342721%40fsbSmi.html|accessdate=August 18, 2017|work=[Moskovskij Komsomolets](/source/Moskovskij_Komsomolets)|date=December 19, 2001|language=ru|quote=Interview with Lieutenant-General Head of the [FSB](/source/Federal_Security_Service) Department for the Moscow Military District|archive-date=August 26, 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130826114359/http://www.fsb.ru/fsb/smi/interview/single.htm!_print%3Dtrue&id%3D10342721@fsbSmi.html|url-status=dead}}][{{cite news |url=https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2008/04/13/38432-shpiono-money |title=Шпионо-money: Сначала дела «ученых-вредителей» были полезны для карьерного роста. Затем сотрудники ФСБ научились извлекать из них чистую прибыль |trans-title=Spy-money: At first, the work of the "saboteur scientists" was useful for career growth. Then the FSB officers learned how to make a net profit from them |language=ru |work=[«Новая газета»](/source/Novaya_Gazeta) (novayagazeta.ru) |date=12 April 2008 |access-date=15 September 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220524065852/https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2008/04/13/38432-shpiono-money |archive-date=24 May 2022}}]{{efn|Allegedly, FSB General General Nikolai Oleshko ({{langx|ru|Николая Олешко}}) headed the first department of the Investigative Directorate of the FSB, which handled the Edmond Pope case, with Yuri Plotnikov ({{langx|ru|Юрий Плотников}}) as an investigator and his father Oleg Plotnikov ({{langx|ru|Олег Плотников}}) as a prosecutor in court.[{{cite news |url=https://openmedia.io/investigation/semya-generala-fsb-kuriruyushhego-delo-safronova-okazalas-sovladelcem-biblio-globusa/ |title=Семья генерала ФСБ, курирующего дело Сафронова, оказалась совладельцем «Библио-Глобуса» |trans-title=The family of the FSB general in charge of the Safronov case turned out to be a co-owner of Biblio-Globus |language=ru |work=Открытых медиа (openmedia.io) |date=22 September 2020 |access-date=15 September 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250912193709/https://openmedia.io/investigation/semya-generala-fsb-kuriruyushhego-delo-safronova-okazalas-sovladelcem-biblio-globusa/ |archive-date=12 September 2025}}][{{cite news |url=https://openmedia.io/files/2020/09/%D0%A1%D1%82%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B0_%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%8C%D0%B8_%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%A4%D0%A1%D0%91_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%83%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0.png |title=Структура бизнеса семьи генерала ФСБ Василия Петухова |trans-title=Business structure of the family of FSB General Vasily Petukhov |language=ru |work=Открытых медиа (openmedia.io) |date=22 September 2020 |access-date=15 September 2025 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250912203808/https://openmedia.io/files/2020/09/%D0%A1%D1%82%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B0_%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%8C%D0%B8_%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%A4%D0%A1%D0%91_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%83%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0.png |archive-date=12 September 2025}}]}} 253 days into his custody, Pope was [pardoned](/source/pardoned) by the newly elected Russian President [Vladimir Putin](/source/Vladimir_Putin) as US government claimed that Pope had a rare form of [bone cancer](/source/bone_cancer).[{{cite news |first=Владимир |last=Козловский |title=Дело Поупа: США негодуют |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/news/newsid_1058000/1058863.stm |work=[Русская служба Би-би-си](/source/%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%81%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B1%D0%B0_%D0%91%D0%B8-%D0%B1%D0%B8-%D1%81%D0%B8) |date=December 7, 2000 |access-date=9 March 2012}}] Pope has always maintained his innocence and continues to assert that the Russian authorities used him as a [scapegoat](/source/scapegoat) for their broken system.[{{cite news|title=Edmond Pope: Arrested and imprisoned for espionage in Russia|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2001/COMMUNITY/11/05/pope/index.html|accessdate=August 18, 2017|publisher=[CNN](/source/CNN)|date=November 5, 2001}}]
In an interview with [CNN](/source/CNN), Pope spoke of a plot by unspecified people in the US, as well as the KGB and the [Russian mafia](/source/Russian_mafia), as a part of which Pope was being slowly poisoned in the [Lefortovo Prison](/source/Lefortovo_Prison). Pope asserted that this was done with the hopes that he would eventually have to be transferred to a hospital, abducted on his way, and smuggled out of the country. Pope claims that Congressman [John E. Peterson](/source/John_E._Peterson) and Pope's wife "learned of this plot and put a stop to it before it was carried out," for which he was grateful.[{{cite book|last1=Pope|first1=Edmond D.|last2=Shachtman|first2=Tom|title=Torpedoed: An American Businessman's True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Imprisonment in Russia, and the Battle to Set Him Free|date=November 14, 2001|publisher=[Little, Brown and Company](/source/Little%2C_Brown_and_Company)|isbn=0-316-34873-2|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/torpedoedamerica00pope}}]
== See also ==
* [VA-111 Shkval](/source/VA-111_Shkval)
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