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Ex-diplomat says was not US govt envoy when securing journalist's Myanmar release

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Former American diplomat Bill Richardson says he wasn't acting for the United States government when he secured the release of journalist Danny Fenster from a Myanmar jail. "I don't work for the US government. I was not an emissary," Richardson tells reporters after landing at New York's JFK airport with 37-year-old Fenster, who was freed Monday. [COMPLETES VIDI9RR4WQ_EN and VIDI9RR4MQ_EN] SOUNDBITE

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