1.   Goldman predicted that Galkin is a prime candidate for an eventual spy swap.

2.   They spent nine years in jail before the KGB managed to extract them in a spy swap for an imprisoned Briton.

3.   After the dramatic East-West spy swap, Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky immigrated to Israel and went in relative obscurity.

4.   During his imprisonment, the Soviets made several efforts to free Klingberg as part of East-West spy swaps, but to no avail.

5.   Mashaal survived, but the agents were caught and later released in a spy swap negotiated by Jordan.

6.   The U.S. Justice Department has adamantly opposed release of Pollard and as a matter of policy opposes freeing U.S. citizens in spy swaps.

7.   The lawyer who arranged spy swaps and did financial deals over the fate of political offenders between East Germany and the West was convicted of blackmail and perjury Tuesday.