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Into the Lion’s Mouth follows Dusko Popov, a double agent during World War II who was also a suave and sophisticated playboy while secretly spying for both the British and the Germans.
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Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2024
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.
—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
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Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2024
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.
—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
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