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Former US Army Green Beret sentenced to 15 years in prison for Russian espionage In a handwritten confession, Peter Dzibinski Debbins wrote that in 1997, he gave Russian intelligence a signed statement saying ‘I want to serve Russia’ Debbins entered active-duty Army service in 1998 and by then had already committed to serve the Russians, assigned the code name ‘Ikar Lesnikov’
share Print U.S. prosecutors said they were seeking a 17-year prison sentence for a former U.S. Army Green Beret who pleaded guilty last year to years of providing classified information to a Russian military intelligence agent. The filing on May 7 in U.S. federal court in Virginia follows Peter Debbins’s guilty plea last November to a federal Espionage Act charge. According to the court filing, Debbins, 46, had a 15-year relationship with Russian intelligence dating back to 1996 when he was an exchange student from the University of Minnesota and on a visit to Russia for an independent s...