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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Alice Peacock

British Embassy spy in Berlin 'put lives at risk' when he sold secrets to the Russians

A British Embassy spy who was was motivated by an "extreme hate" of his workplace and the UK put lives at risk by selling secrets to the Russians, a court heard.

David Ballantyne Smith, 58, gathered a mass of classified information for Russia while working as a security guard in the British Embassy in Berlin.

The Scotsman shared letters between the then Secretary of State for International Trade, Liz Truss and former Prime Minister Boris Johnson that were classified as 'secret'.

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