Sergei Skripal reportedly briefed European intelligence companies about Russia

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• Sergei Skripal supplied secret intelligence briefings
  to European look companies about Russia, in accordance with
  reviews.
• Skripal, and his daughter Yulia, had been poisoned with
  Russian nerve agent earlier this year.
• It be no longer fantastic if these briefings had been the cause
  in the back of the assassination are trying.

Poisoned look Sergei Skripal gave briefings to European
intelligence companies about Russian spying even after he had
supposedly retired, in accordance with a pair of reviews.

The Recent York Times and Czech-language
e-newsletter Respekt are reporting that Skripal, who used to be
poisoned with a Russian nerve agent earlier this year and stays
in hospital in England, supplied look services with files
about the Russian intelligence services.

Britain has blamed the tried assassination, which also
resulted in the hospitalisation of Skripal’s daughter Yulia and
an English police officer, on Russia.

Skripal worked for Russian militia intelligence earlier than turning into
a double agent and helping Britain, and used to be arrested by Russia in
2004. He used to be therefore traded with the UK in a look swap, and
now lives in Salisbury, England — the positioning of the assault.

In step with The Recent York Times, Skripal supplied these briefings
to spies in Estonia and the Czech Republic. 

Discussing the briefings,
a retired Czech look instructed The Guardian: « The ties between MI6
and the Czech intelligence services are so lawful that it’s odd
that the British had been sharp to hire him out, so to keep up a correspondence, to
the Czech services. It can perchance perchance well had been a really priceless and
appealing meeting for the Czechs, there’s tiny query about that.
When discontinuance you can also simply salvage got the likelihood to fulfill a KGB or GRU officer? Nearly
by no formula. »

It be no longer fantastic, nonetheless, if Skripal’s actions suggested Russia’s
are trying on his life: Both The Recent York Times and The Guardian
cite security sources who command that these briefings, by
themselves, would no longer necessarily be cause to manufacture the kind of
unstable assassination are trying — especially as Skripal’s
intelligence will be outdated. « If he used to be pitching other
Russians, that could perchance perchance set him increased on the list, » one offer instructed
The Times. « Or if he got too shut to one thing that used to be no doubt
sensitive to the Russians.”