Double agent Sergei Skripal was a creature of habitIf Sergei Skripal was in hiding, he was hiding in plain sight. SUPPLIED Sergei Skripal seen on CCTV in a local convenience store. The house in Salisbury Skripal moved into a year after being exchanged in a spy swap was bought for cash and registered in the double agent's own name. It was while based in Spain in the Nineties that the Spanish intelligence services realised he was ripe for recruitment as a double agent. ?4,000 each trip and revealed secrets about Russian intelligence officers in Europe.

Source: Stuff March 11, 2018 05:26 UTC