The grandfather of one of the novichok spies unmasked by Britain was a commander in Josef Stalin's notorious 'death to spies' SMERSH counter-intelligence, it is claimed today. Alexander Petrov was named on Wednesday with Ruslan Boshirov as the two agents who poisoned Russian former military agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. Records show Starchenko was a SMERSH major at the end of the war, later becoming a state security sergeant in Stalin's counter-intelligence apparatus. 'Theresa' May either publicly disclosed information about British intelligence having a high-rank mole within Russian military intelligence who passed confirming information or it is a simple assumption, manipulation, a game of coincidences,' stated the channel. Pictures showed Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov separately walking up steps at Gatwick Airport.

Source: Daily Mail September 06, 2018 09:46 UTC