Iran TV broadcasts 'confession by Western spy'
January 17, 2013  08:45
Iranian state television has broadcast what it said was the "confession" of a Westerner who said he had spied for the US Central Intelligence Agency. 

In a report entitled "The hunter trapped," it showed on Wednesday a long-haired man of European appearance in his thirties identified as Matti Valok, whose nationality was not given.

It said he was arrested in August after being kept under surveillance for several months by Iran's security services, and broadcast footage of the suspect in Tehran streets and in a hotel in the capital.

The channel said the suspect was accused of contacting Iranian scientists to seek information on "the country's scientific progress," using a Slovakia-based international recruitment agency that he had created. 

In the report, "Valok" tells how he was recruited by a US agent he named as Steve Logano. 

"He told me I had to keep in close contact with the people I met in Iran," he said, before adding his "apologies to the Iranian people." 

Tehran regularly accuses the United States of espionage in Iran, but it is rare for foreigners admitting such activities to be shown on television.
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