British embassy ‘spy feared to have passed secrets to Putin’ is ‘nothing like James Bond’, pal claims
The flat is filled with Russian flags. Even his favourite tea mug has a Russian emblem. The flat also contains Nazi memorabilia including memoirs by monsters such as Reinhard Heydrich, a principal architect of the Holocaust.
S was firearms trained and carried a 9mm Browning pistol in his first posting to Berlin as a member of the Germany Guard Service. The GGS was hired by the Ministry of Defence to patrol the Army’s sprawling military garrison in Bielefeld, in North Rhine-Westphalia. It is feared his privileged position at the embassy gave him “unfettered” access to sensitive conversations held by those entering the building. S, known to pals as Smudge, is now being held at a super-max German prison in Karlsruhe while British officials consider extradition proceedings.
Erich Schmidt-Eenboom, an intelligence services expert in Germany, said yesterday: “According to my information this man also had access to information relevant to security services.“What remains an open question is whether this is someone recruited by the Russians or someone who offered his services freely for financial self-interest — and I reckon it would be the latter.
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