Not sure there has been any posted info on this recent story with the tabloids in UK.
Anyway all the gossips are saying it was the Putin camp that had arranged this. Not totally convinced.
All sorts of negative info surfing about Putin. Has he really creamed billions from the state ?
Was the attack the work of rogue Russia security agents – or a chilling message from Putin?
Jamie Doward, Marc Bennetts in Moscow and Kevin Rawlinson
Sat 10 Mar 2018 21.00 GMT Last modified on Sun 11 Mar 2018 11.39 GMT
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Sergei Skripal in court in 2006 on charges of spying.
For a man who lived in a modest semi-detached house in a cul-de-sac in the genteel cathedral city of Salisbury, Sergei Skripal had a very immodest past. Some reports suggest that the former officer with Russia’s military intelligence service, the GRU, shared with MI6 the identities of as many as 300 Russian agents during his time as a double agent.
At his trial, the Federal Security Service (FSB, the successor to the KGB) compared Skripal to Oleg Penkovsky, who was executed in 1963, and who history records as one of western intelligence’s most valuable assets.
After his release in 2010, in the largest spy swap since the end of the cold war, Skripal would have been all too aware of how his colleagues viewed him. Many in the FSB are fond of quoting the motto of Smersh, Stalin’s counter-intelligence unit: “Death to spies.” That he came from the GRU only made things worse.
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