FSB reports arrest of nine "Georgian spies" in Russia
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 at 12:19 
Text of report by corporate-owned Russian news agency Interfax
Moscow, 11 August: Officers of the [Russian] Federal Security Service [FSB] have detained nine agents of the Georgian special services who "were gathering reconnaissance on military facilities and were preparing terrorist attacks, including on the territory of the Russian Federation," FSB director Aleksandr Bortnikov told the Russian president [Dmitriy Medvedev] on Monday [11 August].
"All the agents are giving evidence admitting their guilt," Bortnikov said.
He added that an officer of the Georgian special services had been detained who had "been staying in the Russian Federation illegally and was heading these agents".
Source: Interfax news agency, Moscow, in Russian 0958 gmt 11 Aug 08
