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Putin says Skripal cooperated with foreign intelligence after release
MOSCOW, Oct 3, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on
Wednesday called former spy Sergei Skripal “a traitor to the homeland”,
admitting Moscow knew he had cooperated with foreign intelligence upon his
release in a 2010 spy swap.
“He is just a scumbag,” Putin told an energy forum in Moscow, referring to
the Russian ex-spy who Britain says was poisoned with a Soviet-designed nerve
agent by members of Russia’s military intelligence. “He is just a spy, a
traitor to the homeland.”
“He was caught, he was punished, he spent five years in prison, we let him
go, he left and continued cooperating with, providing consultations to
(foreign) security services.”
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