‘I’m a dead man walking’: ex-Russian spy says defectors in UK are at risk
by Jon Ungoed-Thomas from World news | The Guardian on (#5WJ6T)
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In April 1997, Vechernyaya Moskva, one of the most popular newspapers in Moscow, published an article on a former Russian intelligence agent, Boris Karpichkov.
The article was illustrated with a picture of Karpichkov's KGB identity papers, with the crosshairs of a sniper's rifle superimposed. It warned that the ex-KGB major was wanted by Interpol, faced interrogation by the Russian authorities and was being hunted by organised crime groups.
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