Colonel Alexander Poteyev was fleeing his homeland, fearing arrest for the biggest betrayal suffered by Russia’s spy service since the Cold War. “Mary, try to take this calmly,” he typed into his mobile telephone. “I am leaving not for a short time but forever.”
Poteyev’s farewell message to his wife was read out on Monday to a Moscow military court that convicted him in absentia for betraying ten agents in the United States. The affair was splashed across world media last June, a colourful reminder the realm of suburban ’sleeper agents’, dead letter drops and secret ink had not died with the end of communism.
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