Retired U.S. Marine held in Russia for spying is innocent: family

Paul Whelan had been staying with a wedding party for a fellow former Marine at the Metropol hotel in Moscow, said his brother David Whelan, who learned of the arrest on Monday. Russia's FSB state security service said the American had been detained on Friday, but it gave no details of the nature of his alleged espionage activities. A U.S. State Department representative said Russia had notified it that a U.S. citizen had been detained and it expected Moscow to provide consular access to see him.

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