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Vladimir Putin says he met with the Russian spies who were expelled from the US, joining them in a patriotic song and promising them good jobs and a bright future back in their homeland.Russia's Prime Minister said late Saturday he recently got together with the 10 sleeper agents, without saying when or where. The agents were expelled from the US earlier this month in a biggest spy scandal since the Cold War."We talked about life," Putin told reporters in Ukraine. "We sang 'What Motherland Begins With' and other songs of that character." "What Motherland Begins With" is a song from the 1968 television series about Soviet spies in Nazi Germany. The song is favoured by intelligence officers.Putin, a former KGB officer who spent three years in socialist Germany as a low-level functionary, spoke about the uneasy lives the secret agents had in the US, where they were caught by the FBI in US cities and suburbs where they had been living for more than a decade."They had a very difficult fate," Putin said, referring to the expelled spies who spent years burrowing into American society. "They had to carry out a task to benefit their motherland's interests for many, many years without a diplomatic cover, risking themselves and those close to them."Putin blamed "betrayal" as the cause behind the bust of the Russian spy ring in the US and pledged to provide "decent" jobs to the failed spies swapped under a deal between the two countries. "They will work, and I am sure they will have decent jobs," he said. "And I am sure they will have an interesting and bright life."The 10 agents were deported in exchange for three former intelligence officers and a think tank arms expert convicted and sentenced to long prison sentences in Russia. An 11th Russian spy escaped authorities in Cyprus and remains at large, and a 12th one, who had worked for Microsoft, was deported from the US in mid-July. Putin promised that the Motherland will take a good care of its spying sons and daughters.
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