The drama surrounding the attempted murder of Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal escalated this week after UK authorities threatened to introduce new forms of economic pressure on Moscow over the poisoning. Moscow maintains that it had nothing to do with the Skripal attack and has said it has information proving one of the suspects is a civilian.
Skripal worked for the intelligence services of four different alliance countries, Focus magazine reported, citing a source in NATO's Allied Command Counter Intelligence (ACCI).
According to the German publication, during this time, Skripal exposed several active Russian military intelligence (GRU) spies.
The magazine noted that Skripal traveled to Prague in 2012 together with MI6 agents to inform the local intelligence agencies of an active Russian spy network. Skripal is said to have known some of these Russian spies from during his service in the GRU.
Furthermore, the magazine claims that in 2016, information provided by Skripal to Estonian security services enabled them uncover three “Russian spies,” including an ethnic Russian officer in the Estonian army and his father.
It's also alleged that Skripal provided information to Spain's National Intelligence Center.
In the mid-1990s, while serving in the GRU, Sergei Skripal was recruited by British intelligence, and began passing the identities of hundreds of Russian intelligence agents from his crucial position…
