Head of Russian spy agency accused of British poison attack dies 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy ReutersMOSCOW (Reuters) – The head of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency that the West has blamed for a string of brazen attacks died on Wednesday after “a serious and long illness,” the Russian defense ministry said. State news agency TASS cited the ministry as saying Igor Korobov, 62, who ran the spy agency since 2016, had been made a Hero of Russia for his service in the post, the highest state award. Korobov was a Soviet military veteran who served in the air force and, according to his official biography, began working for the GRU in 1985. The GRU, founded as the registration directorate in 1918 after the Bolshevik revolution, is one of Russia’s three main intelligence agencies, alongside the domestic Federal Security Service and the SVR Foreign Intelligence Service.

Source: Manila Bulletin November 22, 2018 06:00 UTC