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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Dan Warburton & Alice Peacock

Brit Embassy spy says he was 'disgusted' with himself for selling secrets to Russians

A security guard caught in an MI5 sting after selling secrets to Russia has claimed he is "disgusted" with himself and hadn't thought about what he was doing.

David Smith, 58, hoarded documents and was caught filming a man he thought was a Russian "traitor" where he worked at the British embassy in Berlin.

But it was actually an undercover sting and the man was a British spook.

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