How MI5 caught a UK embassy spy promoting secrets and techniques to Russia

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How MI5 caught a UK embassy spy promoting secrets and techniques to Russia

A spy on the British Embassy in Berlin who bought secrets and techniques to Russia and was caught in an undercover MI5 sting has been jailed for 13 years and two months.

David Smith, 58, tried to hurt Britain’s pursuits by passing on particulars of the embassy and its employees for money funds, a choose discovered after pleading responsible to espionage.

The BBC’s dwelling affairs correspondent Tom Symonds explains what Mr Smith did and the way he was stopped.

Video by Mattia Bubalo and James McFadden

With inputs from BBC

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