Alexander Poteyev(right)
Posted on 05/06/2011 9:01:18 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Russian agent 'betrayed spy ring for money'
A top Russian secret service agent suspected of blowing the cover of a sleeper spy ring in the United States was a heavy drinker who betrayed Moscow purely to make money, sources said on Wednesday.
Alexander Poteyev, who will go on trial in absentia for treason in Moscow on May 16, is charged with having tipped off Washington about a ring of 10 Russian spies who were later deported in the biggest post-Cold War spy scandal.
The Izvestia daily Wednesday published a slew of new information about Poteyev, saying he was linked to Russian defector Sergei Tretyakov who died last year and had also managed to avoid taking a lie detector test.
A high-ranking source in the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) told the paper that Moscow Centre believed there was no ideology behind Poteyev's betrayal of the spies, who included the notorious femme fatale Anna Chapman.
He sold himself in the most banal way. Money and nothing other than money, said the source, which was not named. He has two weaknesses -- he loves money and loves drinking.
What damage he has brought to his country and his colleagues, just because he needed 20,000-30,000 dollars! the official added.
We are all feeling a desire for revenge. He should be put against the wall. Today we don't use the word traitor much but Poteyev is a real traitor. Before, such people were shot dead and rightly so, added the source.
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Yep, he is upset.
Yes, Anna is a looker, but not one to bring home to mom.
IMO, she’s dog ugly.
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