“I stepped into his cell, I reached out my hand for a handshake to introduce myself… he said, what's the trouble?… I told him I was a foreign correspondent”

The New Yorker Radio Hour · An American Journalist Imprisoned as a Spy in Russia

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When entering a Russian prison cell, he offered a handshake, then responded to the guard's question about his crime, using humor and stating he was a foreign correspondent

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