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Russian spy's treachery revealed

MOSCOW -- An inept Soviet "triple agent" passed vital British secrets to Moscow in the late 1940s, Russian intelligence officers said yesterday as they unveiled details of one of the Cold War's most effective counter-espionage operations.

Viktor Bogomolets was regarded as such a vital intelligence source that his dispatches were handed directly to Stalin himself, the Russian foreign intelligence service, the SVR, revealed yesterday.

More details of Bogomolets's treachery are to be revealed in a new book written by SVR Major-General Lev Sotskov. It will tell for the first time the full story of Operation Tarantella, which fed Soviet misinformation to several western spy agencies for two decades...

Since President Vladimir Putin, himself an ex-KGB spy, came to power, Russia's intelligence services have been keener to revel in past glories, both of the Cold War era and of more recent times...It is generally acknowledged that spying between Russia and the West has returned to Cold War levels.
Read entire article at Telegraph