11.   Espionage charges against the three were dropped, but they were convicted by a closed military court of passing secret information out of the country.

12.   Espionage charges are leveled even more often by the Cuban government against U.S. diplomats assigned to the U.S. interests section in Havana.

13.   FBI Director Louis Freeh during a news conference on Tuesday discussing the arrest of the Robert Philip Hanssen on espionage charges.

14.   German authorities also announced Tuesday the arrest of another person in southern Germany on espionage charges.

15.   Glenn said Huang offered to testify without immunity regarding criminal matters that could lead to espionage charges, but still insists on immunity for testimony about fund raising.

16.   If retired navy captain Alexander Nikitin thought he was off the hook when a Russian court dismissed espionage charges against him last year, he was wrong.

17.   In April, Ames and his wife Rosario pleaded guilty to espionage charges.

18.   In exchange, the government agreed to drop four espionage charges that could have meant the death penalty.

19.   In February, a diplomat assigned to the interests section was ordered expelled from the United States on espionage charges.

20.   In an apparent good-will gesture, China recently released an exiled Tibetan scholar based in the United States who was arrested seven years ago on espionage charges.