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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Ryan Merrifield

Spy spent years 'collecting highly sensitive secrets to sell to the Russians'

A spy spent years collecting highly sensitive secrets to sell to the Russians for large amounts of cash, the Old Bailey heard today.

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

The Scot was unmasked in a joint investigation by German police and British security services and arrested at his home in Potsdam, Germany, in August 2021.

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