GRU Col. Skripal

-GRU Col. Sergei Skripal, double-agent, betrayed ~300 Russian spies to UK

9-9-2018     THE RUSSIAN military agents who tried to murder Sergei and Yulia Skripal were identified thanks to a recently-turned Russian spy, according to intelligence sources.  Codenamed Apollo, he was recruited in a spectacular coup by Britain's Secret Intelligence Service in Rome, weeks after the Novichok nerve-agent attacks in Salisbury….

  Sources say he had been groomed for months by an MI-6 agent posing as an art dealer, after expressing a desire to defect over his belief that Russian president Vladimir Putin is determined to foster conflict with the West.

  Last night a recently retired MI-6 agent revealed Apollo was brought to Britain in early April and debriefed.  He provided Secret Intelligence Service officers with a "wide spectrum of routine and sensitive information" about Moscow's worldwide spy network….Apollo also provided their (Petrov and Boshirov’s) real names and true identities.  https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1015016/novichok-salisbury-nerve-agent-poisoning-russia-Alexander-Petrov-and-Ruslan-Boshirov
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9-15-18    Kremlin intelligence chiefs were blindsided by Britain identifying Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov as GRU officers last month - and believe a traitor was responsible for their unmasking....Moscow spymasters have reportedly ordered a massive security review - and are examining staff logs to see if any employees have behaved "unusually" in recent weeks.      https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7264915/putin-traitor-alexander-petrov-ruslan-boshirov-gru/