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Sergei Skripal, 73, is a former colonel in Russia's Military Intelligence Service who was convicted in 2006 of acting as a double agent and sneaking the identities of other Russian agents to MI6, Britain's spy service.
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Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2024
In 2018, the GRU poisoned and nearly killed the former double agent Sergei Skripal in the United Kingdom, and earlier this year, it was reported that Russia had orchestrated a scheme in 2019 to pay Taliban fighters bounties for attacks on U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
—Alina Polyakova, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2020
Sergei and Yulia Skripal, a former Russian double agent and his daughter who survived being poisoned with nerve agent in 2018, will not testify at an inquiry into the related death of a British woman to protect them from another attack, a U.K. judge ruled last week.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2024
Its participants were the rocket scientist and double agent Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman) battling his chaperone behind the Iron Curtain, East German security officer Hermann Gromek (Wolfgang Kieling), with the farmer’s wife (Carolyn Conwell) offering Armstrong an assist.
—Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
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Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2024
In 2018, the GRU poisoned and nearly killed the former double agent Sergei Skripal in the United Kingdom, and earlier this year, it was reported that Russia had orchestrated a scheme in 2019 to pay Taliban fighters bounties for attacks on U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
—Alina Polyakova, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2020
Sergei and Yulia Skripal, a former Russian double agent and his daughter who survived being poisoned with nerve agent in 2018, will not testify at an inquiry into the related death of a British woman to protect them from another attack, a U.K. judge ruled last week.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2024
Its participants were the rocket scientist and double agent Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman) battling his chaperone behind the Iron Curtain, East German security officer Hermann Gromek (Wolfgang Kieling), with the farmer’s wife (Carolyn Conwell) offering Armstrong an assist.
—Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
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