Posted on 02/14/2023 1:01:18 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
A Russian spy at the British embassy in Berlin was caught by a sting operation, the OId Bailey has heard.
Briton David Ballantyne Smith, 58, was working as a security guard when he passed secret information to Russian authorities.
The court heard how two fake Russian operatives working undercover helped lead to his arrest in August 2021.
Prosecutors claim Smith held strong anti-UK views and was paid for information.
... Items seized from his flat included travel documents and sheets of blank embassy headed paper.
Photographs taken at that address showed a Russian Federation flag, a Soviet military hat, a Communist toy Lada car and a Russian cuddly toy Rottweiler dog wearing a military hat.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
“... a Communist toy Lada car and a Russian cuddly toy Rottweiler dog wearing a military hat.”
I miss John Le Carre, but even he couldn’t make up details like this.
Eh. In this country, we actually have some secrets to guard, and we allow our "top people" guarding our interests to actually have love affairs with known Communist spies.
Why would I think the Germans would even care anymore.
Surprised it didn’t have little miniature Putin KGB thug figures in the Lada.
I wonder if the toy Lada was black.
That some cache right there...
“. Items seized from his flat included travel documents and sheets of blank embassy headed paper.
Photographs taken at that address showed a Russian Federation flag, a Soviet military hat, a Communist toy Lada car and a Russian cuddly toy Rottweiler dog wearing a military hat.”
Eh. Britain has been rife with spies since before WW2. They love them some commies.
“Well, he’s a friend of them long haired, hippy-type, pinko fags!
I betchya he’s even got a commie flag
tacked up on the wall inside of his garage.”
“He’s a snake in the grass, I tell ya guys.
He may look dumb but that’s just a disguise,
He’s a mastermind in the ways of espionage”
Its the universities.
Tenured wine drinking communist professors.
Their students learn how to be useless sublime idiots.
Prosecutors claim Smith held strong anti-UK views
The horror, the horror.
I will miss all those posts from Jon Preston…..
I guess they’re keeping the worn and ‘spotted with bodily fluids’ shirtless Putin poster that’s found in many bedrooms of those who post here.
Such a great song,
Wonder what his freeper handle is?
If it’s true they found this stuff in his flat, he is the stupidest spy ever to exist.
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