Russian Spy Swap: The Names and Occupations of the Spies

UPDATE: "Ten Russian agents have been flown to Vienna after being deported from the US as part of a Cold War-style spy swap between Moscow and Washington," Sky.com reported. "They are expected to be handed over to Russian officials in the Austrian capital."

(July 8) -- An amicable trade agreement between the United States and Russia was reached this afternoon to much fanfare. Of course, this was no ordinary deal, as the bargaining chips were none other than the lives of some 10 Russian and four Western spies.

Details of the swap began to emerge even before a New York judge ordered the immediate deportation of the 10 Russian spy suspects who pleaded guilty in court today to conspiracy charges. Aarrested on June 27 following a decade-plus long investigation, the suspects will be headed back to Moscow. Meanwhile, an 11th suspect still remains on the lam after skipping bail in Cyprus.

In exchange, the United States will receive custody of four individuals convicted of espionage in Russia.

The first trade of its kind since the 1985 exchange on the Glienecke Bridge in Berlin -- when 23 Western spies were released for four Eastern bloc spies, today's swap has raised the question of just who is involved and what they were being detained for in the first place.

As such, Surge Desk rounds up the players and their profiles as we know them so far:

Team America

1.Igor Sutyagin
Profession: Arms control and nuclear weapons specialist
Conviction: Passing information to a U.K. firm said to be used as a CIA front

2. Sergei Skripal
Profession: Ex-Russian officer
Conviction: Spying for the U.K.

3. Alexander Zaporozhsky
Profession: former Colonel in Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)
Conviction: Treason for cooperating with the U.S.

4. Alexander Sypachev
Profession: Ex-Colonel in the Russian intelligence service
Conviction: Passing secrets to the CIA

Team Russia

1. Anna (Chapman) Kushchenko
Undercover Profession: Finance, Psychologist Trainee

2. Mikhail Semenko
Undercover Profession: Travel agent

3. Richard Murphy
Undercover Profession: Stay-at-home father

4. Cynthia Murphy
Undercover Profession: Financial consultant

5. Donald Heathfield
Undercover Profession: TechCast (technology think tank) business partner and Lifeboat Foundation board member

6. Tracey Lee Ann Foley
Undercover Profession: TechCast (technology think tank) business partner and Lifeboat Foundation board member

7. Vicky Pelaez
Undercover Profession: Journalist for El Diario La Prensa, a New York-based Spanish-language newspaper

8. Juan Lazaro (a professed alias)
Undercover Profession: Economics professor

9. Mikhail Kutzik (Alias: Michael Zottoli)
Undercover Profession: Telecommunications employee

10. Natalia Pereverzeva (Alias: Patricia Mills)
Undercover Profession: Homemaker