Labour MP and the bent detective who worked for Moscow
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Documents compiled by Soviet defector Vasili Mitrokhin indicate that former detective sergeant John Symonds and late Labour MP Raymond Fletcher were KGB agents. It appears that Symonds acted as an enforcer and obtained information by seducing women from foreign embassies. He claims that he admitted his involvement with the KGB to MI5 and MI6 but was not taken seriously. Fletcher's life contained many contradictions, but there was never any suspicion of involvement with the KGB.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1999
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How MI6 stole KGB's crown jewels
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MI6 was extremely successful in bringing former KGB officer Colonel Vasili Mitrokhin and his wife out of Russia in 1992. It was even possible to remove large amounts of information about KGB activities from trunks buried in Mitrokhin's garden. Through this operation, MI6 has gained a very detailed insight into KGB work over many years. It is likely that the names of a considerable number of Britons recruited to work for the KGB will be revealed shortly.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1999
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Spy who exposed money launderers faces death
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Latvian Boris Karpichkov, a former KGB major, is facing extradition from the UK on charges of stealing $500,000 from Bank Olympia, a collapsed bank in Riga, Latvia. He alleges that the real reason he is wanted is that he exposed corrupt connections between senior members of the Latvian government and the Russian mafia. He states that the mafia has taken out a contract on him and his family. He is now on hunger strike to boost awareness of his case.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1999
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