MADRID, November 11 (EUROPA PRESS) –
David Ballantyne Smith, a security guard at the British Embassy in Germany, has admitted breaking the Official Secrets Act after spending at least ten months spying for Russia.
Smith, 58, was found as part of an undercover operation and arrested by German police near his home in Potsdam in early August last year, according to the Sky News television network.
Security officers at the British Embassy in Berlin have spent several months transmitting classified information to the Russian military attache, including details about activities as well as private information from Embassy members.
In conversations intercepted by Police, and echoed by the television network, Smith admitted to hating the British and Germans, as well as showing his rejection of the authorities’ support for the LGBT community.
Police authorities found several hundred euros in his house, as well as emails and documents marked “secret” apparently prepared for transfer to a Russian representative.
Smith, an embassy employee for nearly eight years, reportedly contacted the Russian military attache at the Russian embassy in Berlin, Major General Sergei Chujurov, between October 31 and December 1, 2020.
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