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Exclusive: NPR Talks To Sentenced Russian Operative Maria Butina

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Published May 12, 2019 at 1:43 PM EDT
Maria Butina advocates for gun rights in Russia in 2013. Now sentenced to prison, she denies she had any intelligence assignment in the United States.
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Maria Butina advocates for gun rights in Russia in 2013. Now sentenced to prison, she denies she had any intelligence assignment in the United States.

Maria Butina claims she was never recruited as a Russian spy. Then why did the FBI turn up evidence that a Russian security service had offered her employment? NPR's Mary Louise Kelly finds out.

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