Top Russian spy defects after betraying ring in U.S.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The head of Russia’s deep cover U.S. spying operations has betrayed the network and defected, a Russian paper said on Thursday, potentially giving the West one of its biggest intelligence coups since the end of the Cold War. Members of a Russian spy ring are seen in this courtroom sketch during their appearance in Manhattan Federal Court in New York, July 8, 2010. (REUTERS/Christine Cornell/Files) The newspaper, Kommersant, identified the man as Colonel Shcherbakov and said he was responsible for unmasking a Russian spy ring in the United States in June whose arrests humiliated Moscow and clouded a “reset” in ties with…
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