Mark Duell at the Daily Mail
offers a piece on Russian dictator Putin and the attack on a former Russian spy
in the Untied Kingdom.
Russian president Vladimir
Putin once hinted at how his country deals with spies by insisting that
'traitors always end in a bad way'.
The former KGB chief's words
are all the more chilling as fears build over a poison plot in Wiltshire
against Sergei Skripal, a Russian colonel who spied for MI6.
Mr Skripal, 66, was accused
of working for MI6 over several years, in particular disclosing the names of
several dozen Russian agents working in Europe.
Russian president Vladimir
Putin once (left) said 'traitors always end in a bad way'. Fears are building
over a poison plot in Wiltshire against former Russian spy Sergei Skripal
(right)
Among the Russian agents
exposed was the red-haired 'femme fatale' Anna Chapman, and Mr Putin said at
the time: 'It is a result of betrayal.
'Traitors always end in a bad
way. Usually from a drinking habit, or from drugs, right in the street.'
Mr Skripal was sentenced to
13 years in a high-security prison in 2006, before being freed in a 2010 deal
which saw ten Russian sleeper agents expelled from the US.
Mr Skripal retired from
military intelligence, often known by its Russian-language acronym GRU. He went
on to work at the Foreign Ministry until 2003.
He was arrested in 2004 in
Moscow and admitted he was recruited by British intelligence in 1995 and had
provided information about GRU agents in Europe, for which he was paid more
than $100,000.
Mr Skripal was one of four
agents pardoned and released by Moscow in what was said at the time to be the
biggest spy swap since the Cold War.
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