2026-09-25T13:24:43.158Z / 路透社
美国获释在押人员、记者埃文·格尔什科维奇于2024年8月1日抵达美国马里兰州安德鲁斯联合基地时挥手致意。路透社/内森·霍华德 摄
- 概要
- 记者2023年在餐厅与消息源会面时被捕
- 消息源向其提供据称展示坦克生产情况的文件
- 格尔什科维奇称他知晓风险，但遭联邦安全局诱捕
伦敦9月25日路透电 —— 美国记者埃文·格尔什科维奇在2023年于俄罗斯被捕后首次公开详细叙述被捕经历，他表示自己是俄罗斯联邦安全局（FSB）精心策划的诱捕行动的受害者。
在其新书《这片诅咒又美丽的土地》的节选内容中，格尔什科维奇称，当时他正在为《华尔街日报》采写一篇关于俄罗斯军工生产的报道，曾与叶卡捷琳堡一家大型国防工业工厂的工会负责人进行过两次会面。
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在第二次会面的牛排餐厅里，消息源拿出了带有手写数据表格的文件，并告诉记者这些文件与坦克生产有关。
格尔什科维奇写道，当他正在记录笔记时，听到了脚步声，抬头便看到一群蒙面男子朝他们的桌子走来。
“一阵愧疚感席卷而来：我是不是暴露了消息源？但恐慌立刻取代了这个念头。本能驱使我伸手将文件藏在长椅和墙壁之间的缝隙里，”他在《华尔街日报》周五刊发的该书节选内容中写道。
“那些人迅速围了上来。一只胳膊拽住我的脖子，将我从沙发上拖起来……有人喊道：‘你因俄罗斯联邦安全局的命令被捕了。’”
漫长审判，随后迎来换俘
时年31岁的格尔什科维奇成为冷战结束后首位在俄罗斯因间谍罪被捕的美国记者。他随后被判处16年监禁，最终于2024年8月通过东西方换俘行动获释。
他写道，他和编辑们曾考虑过此次报道行程的风险，并达成一致意见：消息源不应携带任何文件参会；如果消息源执意携带，格尔什科维奇也不应接受。
但在会面时，消息源还是“将文件硬塞到了我手里”。
尽管格尔什科维奇曾报道过其他美国人在俄罗斯被捕的事件，以及俄罗斯记者遭到 targeting 甚至谋杀的情况，但他写道，当时有一条“不成文规则”：外国记者享有一定程度的外交豁免权——他们可能被驱逐，但不会被捕。
他在文中描述，当时他震惊不已，被戴上手铐，头上被罩上黑布袋，随后被塞进一辆面包车。在车内，他被扼住喉咙、腹部遭到殴打，同时遭到审问。
联邦安全局的“后备计划”
格尔什科维奇称，获释后他了解到证据显示，如果叶卡捷琳堡的行动失败，联邦安全局还有“后备计划”，打算在他计划前往西伯利亚的另一次报道行程中实施逮捕。
他表示，他认为与叶卡捷琳堡消息源的两次会面，是为了帮助联邦安全局向弗拉基米尔·普京总统证明他是间谍，并在第二次会面时获得逮捕他的批准。
“在我看来，普京完全相信了这套说辞，”他说道。
克里姆林宫并未立即回应置评请求。
普京在2024年2月接受美国电视主持人塔克·卡尔森采访时曾表示，格尔什科维奇“在收集机密信息时被当场抓获”。
该记者、其供职的报纸以及美国政府均强烈否认格尔什科维奇是间谍的指控。
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Evan Gershkovich says his arrest in Russia was carefully planned FSB sting
2026-09-25T13:24:43.158Z / Reuters
U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich, who was released from detention in Russia, waves upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, U.S., August 1, 2024. REUTERS/Nathan Howard
- Summary
- Reporter arrested in 2023 while meeting source in restaurant
- Source gave him documents purporting to show tank production
- Gershkovich says he knew of risks but was entrapped by FSB
LONDON, Sept 25 (Reuters) – US reporter Evan Gershkovich, in his first detailed published account of his arrest in Russia in 2023, says he was the victim of an elaborate sting operation by the FSB security service.
In an extract from his book “This Cursed Beautiful Land”, Gershkovich says that while working on a story for the Wall Street Journal about Russian military production, he held two meetings with the union boss of a factory in Yekaterinburg, a major defence-industry hub.
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At their second encounter, in a steakhouse, the source produced papers with hand-copied tables of figures, telling the reporter that they related to the production of tanks.
As he jotted down notes, Gershkovich said, he heard the sound of marching feet and looked up to see a group of masked men approaching their table.
“A pang of guilt ripped through me: Had I compromised a source? But panic immediately replaced that thought. Instinct took over, my hands moving to hide the papers in the gap between the bench and the wall,” he wrote in the book extract, published by the Journal on Friday.
“The men quickly descended on us. An arm was yanking my neck, pulling me off the couch… Someone shouted: ‘You are under arrest by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.’”
A LONG SENTENCE, THEN A PRISONER SWAP
Gershkovich, then 31, became the first US reporter arrested on espionage charges in Russia since the Cold War. He was later sentenced to 16 years in prison before being freed in an East-West prisoner swap in August 2024.
He writes that he and his editors had considered the risks of the reporting trip and agreed that the source should not bring any documents to the meeting; if he did so, Gershkovich should not accept anything from him.
But at the meeting, the source had “thrust the papers into my hands”.
Although he had reported on the arrests of other Americans in Russia, and on the targeting and even murder of Russian journalists, Gershkovich writes that the “unspoken rule” was that foreign correspondents enjoyed a degree of immunity: they might be expelled, but not arrested.
Reeling with shock, he was handcuffed, had a black sack placed over his head and was whisked into a van where he was placed in a chokehold and punched in the abdomen while being questioned, he writes.
FSB ‘BACKUP PLAN’
Gershkovich said that since his release he had learned of evidence that the FSB had a “backup plan” to arrest him on another of his planned reporting trips, to Siberia, if the Yekaterinburg operation had failed.
He said he believes the two meetings with the source in Yekaterinburg were designed to help the FSB persuade President Vladimir Putin that he was a spy and secure approval for his arrest at the second meeting.
“Putin, it seems to me, fully bought into this narrative,” he said.
The Kremlin did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Putin said in a February 2024 interview with US television host Tucker Carlson that Gershkovich had been “caught red-handed” while collecting confidential information.
The journalist, his newspaper and the US government all strongly deny the allegation that Gershkovich was a spy.
Reporting by Mark Trevelyan in London; Editing by Ros Russell
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