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Paper: Russia hunts double agent who betrayed spies

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Russian newspaper said on Thursday that the head of Moscow's deep cover spying operations in the United States was a double agent who had betrayed at least 10 compatriots in a major blow to Russian intelligence.

 

Kommersant reported that Colonel Shcherbakov, head of the Foreign Intelligence Service's department for "illegal" spying operations in the United States, had been working for Washington. (Reuters)

 

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