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Whelan says he fed information to Western officials that he received from fellow prisoners fighting in Ukraine

 

Paul Whelan, the American who spent five and a half years wrongfully detained in Russia, revealed Sunday that he had passed to Western officials information he received from fellow prisoners who were fighting for Russia on the frontlines in Ukraine.

 

“The prisoners from the camp that went to the frontline, they had communication. And they would communicate with us. And the communication from them I was passing back to the four governments,” Whelan said on CBS’ ‘Face the Nation,’ referring to the US, the United Kingdom, Canada and Ireland — the four countries with which he holds citizenship.

 

Whelan added that he and others were able to communicate with former prisoners through “burner” phones that they could acquire even while at the Russian labor camp in Mordovia.

 

“Through illegal cell phones,” Whelan said. “Yeah, we had burner phones.”

 

Whelan added that the guards “looked the other way” in exchange for goods such as cigarettes.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/whelan-says-fed-information-western-172051386.html