Russia sends hit squad to kill renegade colonel who gave up Anna Chapman spy ring

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The man, named as Colonel Scherbakov, worked for Russia's SVR foreign intelligence service, a successor agency to the KGB, where he oversaw a top- secret programme to dispatch long-term sleeper agents or "illegals" to the United States.

Russian intelligence sources told the Kommersant newspaper that he was the traitor who had given the FBI the names of the ten sleeper agents who made up the ring, including glamorous spy Anna Chapman. In at least one case, he is even said to have taken part in an interrogation.

In an echo of the Cold War, a Kremlin source was quoted as saying that Colonel Scherbakov would not have long to savour his betrayal.


"We know who he is and where he is," the source said. "Have no doubt that a Mercader has been sent after him already."

Ramon Mercader was the KGB assassin who murdered exiled Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky with an ice pick in 1940. A "Mercader" is a synonym for a hit squad.

"The fate of such an individual is unenviable," the Kremlin source continued. "He will fear revenge every day (of his life)."

The FBI went public with the names Colonel Scherbakov had given it in June just days after he himself had fled to the United States. The 10 agents he compromised were exchanged for four men convicted by Russia of being Western spies the following month in the biggest spy swap since the Cold War.

Vladimir Putin, who served as a KGB agent in East Germany in the 1980s, hinted this summer that he knew the identity of the traitor.

"This was the result of treason and traitors always end badly," the Russian prime minister said.

The reason for Colonel Scherbakov betraying his own agents was not clear but the paper said his daughter was a longtime resident of the United States and that his son had moved there earlier this year. The colonel turned down a promotion last year because he knew he would have to take a lie-detector test and feared he would give himself away, it added. Intelligence sources complained there were a number of suspicious things about the double agent that should have rang alarm bells and been investigated but were not.

Gennady Gudkov, deputy chairman of the powerful security committee in the lower house of parliament, said he had known that Colonel Scherbakov was the traitor. He called for a parliamentary inquiry into the fiasco amid calls for Mikhail Fradkov, the head of the SVR foreign intelligence service, to resign.

"The damage committed by the colonel to the state is too enormous," not to have further repercussions, Mr Gudkov told the Interfax news agency.

The view among Russia's intelligence community was that it was one of the worst setbacks it had suffered, he added.

The disclosure has stoked speculation that Russia's intelligence services may be restructured as an investigation into how a double agent could have operated at such a high level continued. "This is a big mix-up that will see heads roll and people demoted," an intelligence source told Kommersant.

The most valuable of the 10 Russian agents exposed appears to be Mikhail Vasenkov who operated under the name Juan Lazaro. Intelligence sources claimed he had been able to obtain the US President's travel agenda years in advance. US investigators had broken his leg and three ribs while interrogating him, they claimed.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...olonel-who-gave-up-Anna-Chapman-spy-ring.html

Better watch his tea :erm:

Russia is back to it's old ways :sick:
 
Lol, love it straight to the point. If you betray us, we kill you.

It is like this in any other country, including the US. The only difference is in the US they do it more rogue ex: "Man, 46, found dead in the mountains of Denver, CO. He looks like he was mauled to death by a dragon."

And no one asks questions :)

I feel for the spy, well at least his kids are safe. He should have run away to another country, he was a fool.
 
ponder said:
He and his family are in the USA, so is the hit squad.
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I meant to a country where it's hard to find him, like Ukraine, somewhere here in South Africa...but I guess there is nothing he can do, he is too weak to take on a country by himself.
 
VioAdmin said:
It is like this in any other country, including the US. The only difference is in the US they do it more rogue ex: "Man, 46, found dead in the mountains of Denver, CO. He looks like he was mauled to death by a dragon."
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Or
“Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has been tragically killed in a motor accident. The world joins the US in mourning the loss.”
 
VioAdmin said:
"Man, 46, found dead in the mountains of Denver, CO. He looks like he was mauled to death by a dragon."

And no one asks questions :)

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Or a man committed suicide by stabbing himself in the back 10 times.:)
 
Tpex said:
"So Colonel, vas it vorth it?"


I thought Torture was illegal in UN countries?
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Technically it is...but what is the UN REALLY going to do to the US? The UN is a nice theory...just like marxism is a nice theory
 
klasvaakie said:
Technically it is...but what is the UN REALLY going to do to the US? The UN is a nice theory...just like marxism is a nice theory
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thats not what I mean, we all know it happens, but why announce it?
 
Tpex said:
"So Colonel, vas it vorth it?"


I thought Torture was illegal in UN countries?
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According to Bush and American ‘advisors’, it’s not torture. It’s interrogation. The rest of the world thinks differently but the US claims it’s a difference in lawyerly interpretation.
 
klasvaakie said:
Technically it is...but what is the UN REALLY going to do to the US? The UN is a nice theory...just like marxism is a nice theory
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The UN is totally dominated by the US. It's even based on New York.
 
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