But the other reason is that if you propose yourself as a double agent, your allies are inclined to wonder if you are a double agent.
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Season 5 Verdict: At best, he is a double agent.
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" — Melinda Bourg, San Diego "Could Dennis be a double agent?!
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You know, being an artist is like being a double agent.
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If Tuan is a double agent, Elizabeth and Philip are screwed.
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Commodore Oh has proved herself to be an effective double agent.
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We spoke with Spander who says he ain't no double agent.
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Then again, that's exactly what a double agent would say, right?!
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The double agent has hinted at a movie deal as well.
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If she resists, they'll assume she's turned double agent for the Americans.
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The Kremlin denies it attacked Mr Skripal, who was a double agent.
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Someone on that list is a highly placed double agent, but who?
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This spy novel, by contrast, is narrated by a communist double agent.
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Soon thereafter, Garcia was accepted as a double agent for the Allies.
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That leaves Dwight, a double agent in two sets of cross hairs.
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The artist is playing a risky role here, that of double agent.
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Soviet double agent inside MI6, you tasted the acrid stench of paranoia and
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It was enough to know, I didn't know he was a double agent.
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Under this scenario, Mr. Manafort was an unwitting double agent for Mr. Mueller.
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"Live and Let Die" (1973): Gloria Hendry played CIA double agent Rosie Carver.
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Preferred qualifications include past work as an Apple Genius or Geek Squad Double Agent.
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Mr Skripal is a former Russian spy who was exposed as a double agent.
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" Video "John Brennan leaked information that almost cost the life of a double agent.
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"I am a secret double agent and I've just blown my cover … " Bell admitted.
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He is scarier because he resembles a double agent dreamed up by liberal screenwriters.
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The only place where I didn't feel like a double agent was in writing.
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The Russians have accused him of becoming a double agent for the United States.
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Once an attacker properly modifies this value then the double-agent is ready to go.
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The obvious question: Was this Alexander Poteyev the double agent, or some other Alexander Poteyev?
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Because now they're making it seem like he was like a double agent for Ukraine.
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They quickly noted that Julia was a double agent and wisely decided to neutralize her.
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" — D, Minneapolis "Wouldn't it be great if Elizabeth is a double agent for the C.I.A.?
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The eponymous Leonie Brandt was a double agent working for Dutch Intelligence against the Gestapo.
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Keeping the good guys from going double-agent is going to take a lot more science.
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Is the hero an opposition leader, a new establishment fixture or a double agent once again?
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People should be able to meet with him without fear of being called a double-agent.
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I would now, and I find preposterous the innuendo that he somehow is a double agent.
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Bar-Joseph goes to lengths to debunk the double-agent theory, and he does it convincingly.
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Former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, remain in critical condition after the poisoning.
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While working for Russian military intelligence, Mr. Skripal became a double agent, selling secrets to Britain.
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The book chronicles the real-life adventures of a famous British double agent against the Nazis.
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Then there was the Yugoslav double agent code-named "Tricycle," in honor of his sexual practices.
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Femme fatale, fallen woman, brazen double agent — every generation has its own version of Mata Hari.
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Correction: A former Russian double agent was nearly killed by a nerve agent attack in Britain.
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Former Russian spy and double agent Sergei Skripal, the victim of a nerve agent attack in England.
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Nazis, allegedly leveraging intelligence from a double agent, arrested Borrel and fellow Physician leaders in June 1943.
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The programs were broadcast after the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter.
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A similar situation occurred in the 2018 attempted killing of double agent Sergei Skripal in the UK.
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Barry Seal's life story as a drug runner turned double agent seems basically tailor-made for Hollywood.
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Or a double agent, sent by Tehran to spread disinformation, or to learn what the Americans knew?
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On Wednesday, May was unequivocal, saying Russia was "culpable" for the attempted murder of the double agent.
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She added that the condition of Yulia's father, former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal, continues to improve.
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Nina's inability to be the double agent, to play everyone off each other, is another good example.
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And additional sensors added in the future would gather even more data from this live-in double agent.
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In that case, an SIS double agent had provided crucial intelligence to the CIA for the drone strike.
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"Alias" first aired in 2001 — Abrams created, wrote and directed, while Garner starred as double agent Sydney Bristow.
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Strategy: We're supposed to assume that Negan's extraordinary vulnerability this episode is due to Dwight playing double agent.
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Once jailed in Russia for working as a double agent, Mr. Skripal was resettled in Britain in 2010.
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He recruited her to work for French intelligence, sure that she was a double agent for the Germans.
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For more than a decade, Gordievsky had been a double agent, turning Soviet secrets over to the British.
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He has been waiting, but not to leave with them: He is a double agent, working with Stan.
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Moscow has denied any involvement in the attempted murder of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter.
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On March 4th, former Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found unconscious in Salisbury, England.
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The réseau Gloria SMH for instance: betrayed to the Gestapo by the double agent Father Robert Alesch in 1942.
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The poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in England last year further strained relations.
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Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, identified as two suspects who poisoned a Russian double agent in Salisbury earlier this yearPhoto: UK Metropolitan PoliceBritish police and counterterrorism officials have identified two men they believe are responsible for the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal, his daughter Yulia Skripal, as well as two bystanders.
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On the other hand, playing double-agent meant that Ben wasn't part of the smug gloatfest after the JP blindside.
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Yetide Badaki is luminous as Bilquis; her subtle, sultry performance as a double agent is difficult to look away from.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May has accused Russia of poisoning former double agent Skripal and his daughter Yulia with Novichok.
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Their case was linked to the March poisoning of a Russian double agent, Sergei V. Skripal, and his daughter, Yulia.
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Bar-Joseph's account is packed with gripping detail and debunks some theories, including one that Marwan was a double agent.
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Or using a lethal chemical weapon to poison a double-agent and his daughter in a provincial city in England.
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Why would Russia bother to go after a double agent of no use to either side, Mr. Kiselyov sarcastically wondered?
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Last night he tweeted out an absolute bonkerballs video/attack ad that said Romney is a secret democratic double agent.
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More than a stereotype or poseur, this flaneur represented an alternative form of modern consciousness, a sort of double agent.
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The spy drama ran for 5 seasons from 2001-06 and catapulted Garner to fame as CIA double-agent Sydney Bristow.
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Like Harry, it seems that the wizarding world's most famous double-agent still holds a pretty big place in Rowling's heart.
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Skripal was a double agent in Russia passing secrets to the British before he was arrested by the Kremlin in 2006.
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Robert B. Rheault, commander of Special Forces in South Vietnam, were charged with the murder of an alleged Vietnamese double agent.
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Some speculate that General Padrino is a skilled double agent: that he went along with the talks to smoke out opponents.
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Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, were discovered incapacitated on a park bench in south England last week.
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Former double agent Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found slumped on a bench in Salisbury, southern England, in March 2018.
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Smith had reason to suspect that Leung might be a double agent working for Chinese intelligence, but he protected her anyway.
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In the spring, Sergei Skripal, a former double agent, and his daughter Yulia were exposed to the nerve agent in Salisbury.
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The former spy, and double agent, Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia remain in a critical condition in a U.K. hospital.
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An earlier K.G.B. defector, Anatoliy Golitsyn, had convinced Mr. Angleton that every K.G.B. defector after him would be a double agent.
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Moscow has come under increasing international pressure following a nerve toxin attack on a former Russian double agent on British soil.
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One of the agents exchanged was Sergei Skripal, once a colonel in Russia's military intelligence who worked as a British double agent.
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The highest-profile recent example was the attempted assassination in the UK of the Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter.
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The information was part of a questionnaire the British double agent was given by his German handlers on behalf of the Japanese.
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And it was relevant earlier this year when the same agent -- Novichok -- nearly killed a former Russian double agent and his daughter.
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Russian double agent Sergei Skripal has survived an assassination attempt by poisoning and is "improving rapidly," according to the hospital treating him.
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The findings come as Russian officials continue to deny that Russia had anything to do with the poisoning of the former double agent.
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With Cheryl Blossom (Madelaine Petsch) fully in the Farm's thrall, Betty deploys Miss Bombshell's girlfriend Toni (Vanessa Morgan), as a secret double agent.
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On March 4, Sergei Skripal, a former Russian double agent, and his daughter, Yulia, were found unconscious on a bench in Salisbury, England.
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But after being taken down for doing exactly what Carrie instructed of him, to protect Franny, Quinn thinks Carrie is a double agent.
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His name was Joan Pujol Garcia, and he was a Spanish spy working as a double agent for both the Allies and Nazis.
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Russia denies it was involved in the March attack, which left former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in critical condition.
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Instead of finding out who was a double agent, she was now sitting across the table and deciding who they could partner with.
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More sanctions were imposed this year after the United Kingdom linked the Kremlin to the attempted murder of a former Russian double agent.
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Tensions between Britain and Russia grew this year after London accused Moscow of poisoning former double-agent Sergei Skripal in Britain in March.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday called Sergei Skripal, a former Russian double agent poisoned in Britain, a scumbag who had betrayed Russia.
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Tension between Moscow and London, after the poisoning of a former double agent living in Britain, has also raised questions about British energy security.
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As part of a prisoner exchange with Britain and America, the MI6 double agent swapped a Russian jail cell for suburban life in Wiltshire.
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Britain, the EU, and the United States blame Russia for a nerve agent attack against a Russian double agent in Salisbury earlier this year.
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Former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found slumped on a public bench in the English city of Salisbury in March.
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Russia-UK relations also turned frosty after Britain accused Moscow of the poisoning of a former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal - accusations Moscow denies.
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I want a movie, book, or show from the other side, amid Coruscant's glittering spires, as Iella navigates a life as a double-agent.
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He also said that the joint statement about the attack on a former Russian double agent living in Britain left something to be desired.
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Russia is still an international pariah after it was blamed for the attempted assassination in the UK of the Russian double agent Sergei Skripal.
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Skripal is a former Russian military intelligence officer who acted as a double agent for the UK and has been living there since 2010.
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According to The New York Times, the FBI started a double-agent program in March 2015 to root out spies working for the Chinese.
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The diplomats were expelled after a nerve agent attack on March 4 against a former Russian double agent and his daughter in Salisbury, England.
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Sergei Skripal, who once worked as a double agent for Britain, and his 33-year-old daughter, Yulia, were found unconscious on a bench.
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All is fair in love and war, until Max learns that his wife is suspected of being a double agent, working for the Germans.
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In dozens of vituperative articles, Hahn called Ryan a "third-world migration enthusiast" and a "double agent" who was secretly campaigning for Hillary Clinton.
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A diplomatic crisis between Russia and Britain over the poisoning of a former Russian double agent on English soil underlined gold safe-haven appeal.
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By the time of his conviction, Poteyev was apparently long gone, off to start life anew in the country he had served as double agent.
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One example: A year ago, former Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned in the U.K. with Novichok, a nerve agent.
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Secretary of Homeland Security: Dennis Rodman Twist: Dennis Rodman's whole North Korea fascination has actually been deep-cover, double-agent-status training for this appointment.
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Russia denies Britain's allegations that it was involved in the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, the former double agent, and his daughter Yulia, in southern England.
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British officials identified Novichok, a Soviet-developed nerve agent, as the substance which last year poisoned former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter.
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Here's the news: • Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain expelled 23 Russian diplomats over the poisoning of a former Russian double agent on British soil.
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The bureau wanted to use the professor as a double agent to learn about "Russian collection priorities, tradecraft, and things like that," he told me.
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Skripal, a former Russian spy who became a double agent for the U.K., fell into critical condition after being poisoned in Britain on March 4.
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Skripal, a former Russian spy who became a double agent for the UK, fell into critical condition after being poisoned in Britain on March 4.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen tells "The Sympathizer" from the perspective of a double agent Vietnamese army captain who comes to America after the Fall of Saigon.
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Britain's foreign minister said on Monday that Russian denials of responsibility over a nerve agent attack on the former Russian double agent were "increasingly absurd".
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Steele relied on a character who, Horowitz determined, had a dubious reputation and may have been under investigation as a possible double agent for Russia.
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Corporate double-agent Diane de Monx (Connie Nielsen) crosses company wires and double-crosses her coworkers in pursuit of a lucrative internet porn company portfolio.
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The big picture: We already knew a similar system was uncovered by the Chinese around the same time, possibly due to alleged double agent Jerry Lee.
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Their suggestion that a key witness in the inquiry, a veteran with a Purple Heart, was a double agent, went too far even for congressional Republicans.
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Fox's Red Sparrow, which is based on a book of the same name, stars Jennifer Lawrence as a Russian spy turned double agent for the CIA.
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Trump handed May a huge diplomatic boost in the aftermath of the nerve-agent poisoning of a Russian former double agent on English soil in March.
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Smith, the first movie he appeared in with Angelina Jolie ... and where his character was assigned to take out his wife, a possible double agent spy.
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The British royal family, for example, boycotted the event, after the poisoning earlier this year, by nerve agent, of a former Russian double agent in Britain.
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Meanwhile Russia faces an ongoing, international diplomatic fallout following the poisoning of former Russian double agent in the United Kingdom, for which London blames the Kremlin.
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The fact Snape is described as a "superb Occlumens" is an early clue as to how he is able to successfully act as Dumbledore's double agent.
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" Yoo later released a statement saying his critics were "deliberately" twisting his words and that he wasn't accusing Vindman of being "some kind of double agent.
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UK and Russia The UK will smack back at the Russians -- hard -- if they're found to be behind the suspected poisoning of an ex-double agent.
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Moscow said it would retaliate against London's move to expel 23 Russian diplomats over a nerve toxin attack on a Russian former double agent in Britain.
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They used similar tactics last year, after Russian military intelligence poisoned former British-Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the United Kingdom.
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Among others to have died are the Russian double agent Nina (killed early in season four) and FBI boss Frank Gaad (killed late in season four).
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European officials, meanwhile, accused Moscow of ordering cyberattacks on the organization tasked with investigating the poisoning of Russian double agent Sergi Skripal and his daughter in March.
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Britain is also considering tougher sanctions against Russia, after the poisoning of double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the English city of Salisbury in March.
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Oh my God, look at the spin they are using right now, actually saying that Vindman is a Ukrainian double agent....this is so freaking bananas pic.twitter.
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It turns out that James Armistead was an enslaved man from Virginia who enlisted to fight against the British and ended up working as a double agent.
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Russia's apparent use in March of a military-grade nerve agent against Sergei Skripal, a former double-agent living in Britain, tipped that relationship into open confrontation.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will expel 23 Russian diplomats in retaliation for a chemical attack on a former Russian double agent, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday an attack involving a nerve agent against a former Russian double agent in England could not remain unanswered.
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Most recently, Tillerson raised eyebrows by laying the blame on Russia for the poisoning of the double agent Sergei Skripal—something that Sarah Huckabee Sanders wouldn't do.
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Graphic novel "The Coldest City" by Antony Johnston is a double-agent spy thriller that takes place on the eve of the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
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How it happened... In March, the Trump administration accused Russia of culpability in the nerve agent attack on Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, England.
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The poisoning last week of Sergei V. Skripal, a retired Russian double agent, and his daughter has put pressure on the British government to rein them in.
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Prime Minister Theresa May suspended high-level contacts with Russia and expelled 23 Russian diplomats over the poisoning of a former Russian double agent on British soil.
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The theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a double agent claiming to spy for Hitler's Reich, was actually involved in the resistance movement that planned a few of these plots.
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Trump has operated at times like an Oval Office double agent -- a conservative by virtue of his rhetoric, but one whose actions tend to hurt his cause.
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Britain's intelligence services believe the Russian state was behind the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, a former double agent, and his daughter, Yulia, in Britain earlier this year.
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The poisonings of Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, blamed by Britain on Russian intelligence agents earlier this year, strained ties between the countries.
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This referred to a 2018 chemical attack on a former Russian double agent in the city of Salisbury that the British government blamed on Russian military intelligence.
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The institute was a "psyop network" that "played a key role in monitoring and molding media narratives after the poisoning of double agent Sergei Skripal," RT said.
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But while Dag's in the business of breaking the world, the Island's in the business of saving it — and they want Dag to be their double agent.
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Lawmaker Tom Tugendhat said the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, looked "awfully like it was state-sponsored attempted murder".
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Cover image: Soldiers wearing protective clothing in Hyde Road, Gillingham, Dorset, as the investigation into the suspected nerve agent attack on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal continues.
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At the time, the organisation was studying samples of the chemical agent used in the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal, a Russian double-agent, in Britain in February.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will expel 23 Russian diplomats in retaliation for the nerve agent attack on a former Russian double agent, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Russian news channel RT said its editorial approach had not changed since a Russian double-agent was poisoned in the English city of Salisbury last month.
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Drifting back into the espionage game to save her homosexual brother from ruin, she finds herself entangled with a Russian spy she persuades to become a double agent.
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Delegates are supposed to reflect the decisions of voters, but the system is being rigged by party operatives with "double-agent" delegates who reject the decision of voters.
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But the nerve agent attack last week on a retired Russian double agent and his daughter has put pressure on London to rein in President Vladimir Putin's operatives.
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Prime Minister Theresa May, above, suspended high-level contacts with Russia and expelled 23 Russian diplomats over the poisoning of a former Russian double agent on British soil.
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After the poisoning in Britain in March of a former Russian double agent and his daughter, nine governments said their officials would boycott the Russian-hosted soccer championship.
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Mr. Skripal, who had served as a double agent for British intelligence, was released from prison in an exchange for 10 Russian agents unmasked in the United States.
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Skripal had once worked in the shadows, living the perilous, heart-thumping life of the double agent, a GRU (Russian Military Intelligence) man secretly operating for the British.
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WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's main line of inquiry is that Russians used a mystery substance to strike down former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal, two security sources said.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Opponents of President Vladimir Putin used graffiti on Thursday to take an ironic swipe at Russia over the nerve toxin attack on a former double agent.
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Photo: GettyOfficials from Britain and Russia are still fighting over who exactly poisoned former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats following the poisoning of a former double agent is a hostile and unjustified action, Russia's embassy in London said on Wednesday.
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HELSINKI, March 14 (Reuters) - European Union leaders will discuss the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in Britain, the chairman of EU leaders Donald Tusk said on Wednesday.
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Lombardy-Russia, which was founded in 2014, has consistently pushed pro-Kremlin propaganda, recently claiming that the poisoning of Russian double agent Sergei Skripal was a "false flag" operation.
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A Novichok nerve agent was identified as being used to poison Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the English city of Salisbury in March 2018.
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The two collapsed after visiting Salisbury, the same town where former Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were attacked with the chemical weapon back in March.
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Britain has accused Russia of being behind the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia with a nerve agent in the English city of Salisbury.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday that the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in Britain was not a matter for the Russian government.
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With all of the tax leaks and ban orders and double-agent microwaves, we've completely lost track of America's embodiment of the town from Footloose, Vice President Mike Pence.
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NATO called on Russia on Wednesday to give Britain "complete disclosure" of the Soviet-era nerve agent used in an attack on a Russian double agent on March 4.
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The U.S. joined dozens of countries in March in expelling Russian diplomats in retaliation for the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, a former Russian double agent, and his daughter, Yulia.
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In addition to the expulsion, Britain said it would freeze Russian state assets in retaliation for a chemical attack on a former Russian double agent, May said on Wednesday.
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British officials have blamed the Russian government for the March 4 attack on Yulia Skripal and her father, Sergei Skripal, a former Russian double agent and a British citizen.
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Consider: One month ago, Russian ex-double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were found unconscious on a park bench in Salisbury, poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent.
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Investigators now believe that a nerve agent was used to poison a former Russian double agent, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter in the English town of Salisbury on Sunday.
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Skripal, 33, and her father Sergei, 66, a former Russian double agent who was living in England, were found unconscious in the southern city of Salisbury on March 4.
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The case comes as Britain and the European Union have clashed with Moscow, accusing Russia of being involved in the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in England.
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Officials have said Mr. Skripal, a former Russian spy turned double agent who was living peacefully in southwestern England, was very likely targeted as an example to future defectors.
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His case studies include the convicted pedophile Jerry Sandusky, the double agent Ana Montes, the Ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff and — because Gladwell is nothing if not ambitious — Adolf Hitler.
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I had written a story about Novichok, a secret nerve agent Russia had developed (and would use 25 years later against the former double agent Sergei Skripal in England).
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Notably, the source had initially refused to leave when American officials proposed getting him out for his own safety, raising suspicions about whether he might be a double agent.
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Just a week before Ms. Samoylova's shopping mall performance, 25 European countries expelled Russian diplomats over the poisoning of a former Russian double agent and his daughter in England.
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While American officials have claimed that Mr. Dokuchaev hacked Yahoo to help the Russian government, Russian authorities have accused him of being a double agent for the United States.
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The EU member states have agreed to take punitive measures against Russia for the nerve-agent attack on the former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia.
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Last week, Britain accused Russia of carrying out a nerve agent attack on a former Russian double agent and his daughter on British soil; the Kremlin has denied responsibility.
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Britain, the United States, Germany and France have jointly called on Russia to explain a nerve toxin attack in England on a former Russian double agent and his daughter.
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The classified information, according to the more than 20-page FBI affidavit, was provided by the US government to a confidential human source who acted as a double agent.
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They come after Sergei Skripal, a former Russian spy-turned-double agent for the U.K., and his daughter Yulia, were subject to a nerve agent attack on March 4.
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Seasons: 5 (2001-2006)What it was about: Jennifer Garner's character, Sydney Bristow, assumes multiple aliases while working as a double agent for the CIA and a spy organization.
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"We must, as a world community, stand up for the rules based order which keeps us all safe," said Johnson about the poisoning of the double agent and his daughter.
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LONDON, April 18 (Reuters) - Russian news channel RT said its editorial approach had not changed since a Russian double-agent was poisoned in the English city of Salisbury last month.
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Theresa May pointed the finger at Russia in a statement to Parliament on Monday, saying it was"highly likely" that Russia ordered the assassination of the double agent Sergei Skripal.
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The sanctions follow the expulsion of 60 American diplomats from Russia this week, after the nerve-gas poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in England.
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The poisoning of the Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in England in March led to tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats by Moscow and the West.
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And on Tuesday night, Fox's Laura Ingraham led a panel discussion in which she and her guests suggested that Vindman might actually be a double agent for the Ukrainians. How?
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In fact, antibiotics meant to help acne vulgaris can worsen Pityrosporum folliculitis, suppressing the skin's natural microbiome function and actually allowing the yeast to flourish, like a sneaky double agent.
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In the case of the Stuxnet virus that temporarily sabotaged Iran's nuclear program, it was brought into Iran's Natanz nuclear facility on a thumb drive by an Isreali double agent.
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The neurochemical attack this month on Sergei Skripal, a retired Russian double agent, in Salisbury, a sleepy British cathedral city, is just the latest in a line of brazen incidents.
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Britain's military laboratory has not established whether the nerve agent that poisoned a Russian former double agent and his daughter came from Russia, the laboratory's chief executive said on Tuesday.
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Recent cases include the assassination of the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in 2017 and the attempted murder of Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in March.
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Britain blames Russia's GRU military intelligence agency for the poison attack on former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the English city of Salisbury last year.
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Among those who knew Sergei Skripal in the quiet English city of Salisbury, few seem to have been aware of his background as a spy and British-Russian double agent.
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Yulia Skripal, who was poisoned in Britain last month along with her father, a former Russian double agent, issued a statement on Thursday saying the "entire episode is somewhat disorientating".
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Ofcom said in a statement Thursday that the Russian broadcaster failed to preserve "due impartiality" in seven programs that aired after the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal.
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On the diplomatic front, the United States and NATO allies have expelled scores of Russian diplomats for Russia's alleged poisoning of double agent Sergei V. Skripal in the United Kingdom.
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Moscow's ties with EU countries remain strained after Russia's annexation of Crimea, its involvement in Syria and eastern Ukraine and the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in Britain.
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There's Stan's erstwhile lover, Nina (Annet Mahendru), a K.G.B. office worker at the Soviet Embassy who is shipped back to Moscow after being used as a double agent and pawn.
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Russia's missile test comes at a time when it faces backlash from other major nations after Britain blamed the country for the poisoning of Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal.
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And like Starr and her whole double agent approach, I was the black model for this one guy—the one he could touch and hear within an eye/ear shot.
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British authorities say the two suspects they identified in the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, fled to Russia after the attack, reports CNN.
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The poisonings came months after a former Russian double agent, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter, Yulia Skripal, were found on a park bench after being exposed to the nerve agent.
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The president's tough-guy approach has recently been telegraphed in other ways — even, some have suggested, in the accusation that the Kremlin poisoned a former Russian double agent in Britain.
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Mr. Skripal, a former Russian double agent, and his daughter, who had been visiting him from Russia, were found unresponsive on a bench in a Salisbury park on March 4.
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After Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yuliya fell victim to the nerve agent "Novichok" in England, British authorities cast blame upon Russia and its secret services.
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UK and Russia The UK is kicking out 23 Russian diplomats after the Brits said Russia was responsible for the poisoning of an ex-Russian double agent and his daughter.
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Britain's warnings of retaliation if it is proven Russia was behind the poisoning of a double agent are propaganda and not serious, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
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Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday that Russia had no motive to poison Sergei Skripal, a former Russian spy-turned-double agent for the U.K., and his daughter Julia on March 4.
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The ministry said it is summoning the envoys of Western states who took "unfriendly steps" towards Russia over the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter.
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A row with Britain over allegations the Kremlin used a nerve agent to poison a Russian double agent in a sleepy English town — denied by Moscow — has not dented his standing.
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In emerging Europe, Russian stocks fell 89.5833 percent as investors eyed the continuing standoff between Moscow and the West over the poisoning of a former Russian double agent on British soil.
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They're led by double agent Brock Rumlow (Frank Grillo), who will later become the villain Crossbones, at least long enough to kick off some key action in Captain America: Civil War.
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Commentary Though the Russian government has denied involvement in the poisoning of a former British double agent, British authorities believe Moscow was behind the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter.
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The job listing calls for prior experience as an Apple Genius or a Geek Squad Double Agent and presumably requires some expertise in smart homes, especially smart homes powered by Alexa.
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In other signs of strains with Moscow, Montenegro last month expelled a Russian diplomat over the poisoning of a former Russian double agent that the British government has blamed on Moscow.
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Some 180 British military specialists were deployed to Salisbury Friday to decontaminate sites following the attempted murders of a former Russian double agent and his daughter with a deadly nerve agent.
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The nerve agent attack on former Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter sends a powerful message to the rest of the world: the assassins aren't playing by the rules.
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Ms. Mandelker said there has been great unity on Russia among European nations since March 4, when Sergei V. Skripal, a former Russian double agent, was found poisoned in southwestern England.
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Former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia remain in critical condition in hospital after being found unconscious on a bench in the English city of Salisbury on March 4.
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He made no mention of sanctions on Russia or of the poisoning of former Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the English city of Salisbury earlier this year.
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Throughout his time as a double agent, Garcia gave the Nazis a mixture of false reports, true but nonessential information, and high-value info that had arrived a little too late.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British investigators have identified a Russian military intelligence officer as a third suspect in the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal, two European security sources told Reuters.
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He added that additional secret service information appeared to have led Britain to blame Russian President Vladimir Putin for the attempted murder of former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that no one except British authorities had seen poisoned former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia for over a month.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will expel four Russian diplomats over Moscow's suspected involvement in the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in England, the German Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
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In Moscow, the Russian Foreign Ministry summoned foreign diplomats to suggest Britain itself may have been responsible for poisoning a former Russian double agent and his daughter with a nerve agent.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that Russia could announce retaliatory measures against Britain in a diplomatic row over the poisoning of former double agent at "any minute".
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Pulling the strings is the spymaster Kurtz, played by a mustachioed Michael Shannon, who has Charlie take on the role of double-agent in a terrorist scheme that tests her loyalties.
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Nor did the GRU go to great lengths to conceal its agents' movements and activities surrounding the chemical weapons attack in the UK against a former Russian double agent, Sergei Skripal.
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He was later rehired, and it was not until late 1962 that the British became convinced he was a double agent and sent a new interrogator to meet him in Beirut.
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A row with Britain over allegations the Kremlin used a nerve toxin to poison a Russian double agent in a sleepy English town — denied by Moscow — has not dented his standing.
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Skripal was a former Russian spy and was convicted of working as a double agent for the British secret service, MI6, and was sentenced to 13 years in prison in Russia.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Foreign Ministry accused Britain on Wednesday of choosing confrontation over cooperation with Russia when handling the case of Sergei Skripal, a former Russian double agent poisoned in Britain.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia remain critically ill in hospital after being poisoned with a nerve agent in the southern English city of Salisbury.
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The ministry has said it is summoning the envoys of Western states who took "unfriendly steps" towards Russia over the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter.
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The poison is classified in a family of nerve agents called Novichok and is believed to have been used to incapacitate former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter earlier this month.
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So, it sounds like the media is engaged in a semantic debate here and I guess the reason it is important is that spy sounds like a 22000 double agent sinister thing.
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They've been accused of acting as Russian intelligence agents and attacking a former double agent in Salisbury, but the two men say that they're just regular businessmen who work in sports nutrition.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A nerve agent was used to poison former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the southern English city of Salisbury, Britain's top counter-terrorism officer said.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal was poisoned by a very rare nerve agent, a reporter from the Sun newspaper said on Wednesday ahead of a police briefing on the case.
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The attempt to kill Sergei Skripal, a former double agent—and the poisoning of his daughter and a British policeman—was "an affront to the prohibition on the use of chemical weapons".
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She added the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in England in March had probably pressured the government to tackle the web of offshore shell companies used to invest in Britain.
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The broadcasters have been drawn into a bitter row between London and Moscow that erupted last year over the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in England.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Yulia Skripal, who was poisoned in Britain last month along with her father, a former Russian double agent, issued a statement on Thursday saying the "entire episode is somewhat disorientating".
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LONDON (Reuters) - British police have identified a third Russian military intelligence officer they believe carried out a reconnaissance mission before the attempted murder of double agent Sergei Skripal, the Telegraph newspaper reported.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal remains critically ill in hospital more than a month after he was poisoned with a nerve agent in the southern English city of Salisbury.
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Russia's relations with Europe and the US had already plummeted over the attack on former Soviet double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the UK with a military-grade nerve agent.
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It was determined the pair had somehow been exposed to Novichok, a powerful nerve agent that was allegedly used in the March 2018 poisoning of a Russian double agent and his daughter.
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Britain expelled 23 Russian diplomats over accusations the Kremlin was behind a nerve toxin attack in March on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the English city of Salisbury.
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May's office said she asked Moscow to hand over the Russian suspects Britain blames for poisoning a former double agent and his daughter with a nerve agent in Salisbury, England last year.
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The man, Boris Karpichkov, who said he worked for the K.G.B. before becoming a double agent and later claiming asylum in Britain, spent 15 months in New Zealand in 2006 and 2007.
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TL;DR SNAPE IS A RLY MEAN GUY OK. I'm not saying he was practicing, but if his duty as double agent necessitated Snape killing or torturing innocent people, he did it.
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On Thursday, leading figures from France, Germany, the U.S. and the U.K. went on to issue a joint statement which condemned the chemical attack on a Russian former double agent in England.
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Russia, which has been attempting to frame the attack on the former Russian double agent as the work of British and American intelligence agencies, immediately leapt on the discrepancy in Johnson's account.
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SALISBURY, England (Reuters) - Britain deployed specialist troops on Friday to remove potentially contaminated objects from the English city where a Russian former double agent and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve agent.
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Ofcom warned on Tuesday that it could strip Russia Today (RT) of its UK license if the government determined that Moscow was behind the poisoning of a double agent in England this month.
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And as we mentioned on yesterday's episode, Fox News' Laura Ingram came out swinging against Vindman, suggesting that because he'd emigrated from Ukraine as a child, he was some kind of double agent.
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Pussy Riot's tour of the United Kingdom comes as relations with Russia are at a low after the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his 33-year-old daughter, Yulia.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow is uncomfortable about European states' stance over the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in England, RIA news agency cited the Kremlin as saying on Saturday.
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So much so that, for much of the movie, we're asked to seriously ponder whether or not Dominika could really be willing to defect on his word alone, thus becoming a double agent.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Police investigating the poisoning of a Russian double agent in Britain will not at this stage name any potential suspects as their enquiries continue, a senior police officer said on Tuesday.
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LONDON, March 9 (Reuters) - Britain's interior minister visited the scene where a Russian double agent was found unconscious on a bench after a nerve agent attack, a Reuters photographer at the scene said.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will respond in kind if the United States expels Russian diplomats over the poisoning of Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal in Britain, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.
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He caused a stir last year when he told Russia to shut up and go away after a nerve agent attack on a former Russian double agent in the English city of Salisbury.
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Kendricks didn't even hesitate -- putting together a Eagles cheat sheet like a double agent ... and then presented all of his info during a team meeting before they clashed in last week's preseason game.
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Police in the southwestern town are racing to identify the substance suspected of striking down a former Russian double agent convicted of treason in Moscow for betraying dozens of spies to British intelligence.
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A former Russian double agent is left in critical condition in a British hospital, the U.S. primaries kick off in Texas and delegates from North and South Korea emerge from a 'historic' meeting.
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The United Kingdom moved to expel 23 Russians earlier this month in response to the nerve-agent attack on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, which the government blamed on Russia.
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Former double agent Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, have been in hospital since they were found unconscious on Sunday on a bench in the southern English cathedral city of Salisbury.
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Why it matters: The U.S. is expelling far more Russians than any other country, including the U.K., where double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve agent March 151.
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Ofcom warned on Tuesday that it could strip Russia Today (RT) of its UK licence if the government determined that Moscow was behind the poisoning of a double agent in England this month.
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SALISBURY, England (Reuters) - Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia are still in a very serious condition in hospital after exposure to a nerve agent, British Home Secretary Amber Rudd said.
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Some skeptics said his story was too improbable to be true — they mused that he must have been a double agent of some sort, meant to cast the opposition in a bad light.
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He also delves into the life of George Blake, a British spy who became a double agent for the Soviets, reporting to them about, among other things, the progress of the tunnel project.
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The United Kingdom and Russia have been locked in a diplomatic fight since May's government accused Moscow of organizing the March 4 poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, England.
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The claim comes a week after UK officials accused two Russian military intelligence agents of poisoning double agent Sergei Skripal with the nerve agent novichok in the English city of Salisbury in March.
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An American Olympic-hero-turned-double-agent, Weston is a character plucked from a different era, and this subplot seems less about a national security threat than like a six-figure poker game.
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The penalties come after Sergei Skripal, a former Russian spy-turned-double agent for the U.K., and his daughter Yulia were subject to a nerve agent attack in Salisbury, England, on March 4.
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Tensions between Russia and Britain have escalated in recent weeks as both countries have expelled diplomats from each other's nations over the apparent poisoning of a former Russian double agent on British soil.
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In recognition of his past service, England took him in, allowing the former double agent to live out his years with a Sundays-in-the-park complacency in a quaint English cathedral city.
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The leaders of France, Germany, Britain and the United States issued a joint statement on Thursday condemning a chemical attack on a Russian former double agent in England and blaming Moscow for it.
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Russia has not responded to Britain's demand to explain by midnight how a Soviet-era nerve toxin was used to strike down a former Russian double agent, the Russian embassy in London said.
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SALISBURY, England (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May visited Salisbury on Thursday, the elegant cathedral city which became the unlikely backdrop to a chemical attack against a Russian former double agent this month.
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Polling suggests her handling of a nerve agent attack against a former Russian double agent in England in March and the decision to take military action in Syria has improved her public image.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British police said the unexplained death of a man in London was not linked to the attempted murder of a former Russian double agent in the southern English city of Salisbury.
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He also singled out Russia for its apparent role in the Soviet-era nerve weapon used to poison a former Russian double agent in Britain - a position that initially diverged from the White House.
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Russian spies attempted to hack the Netherlands-based global chemical weapons watchdog investigating the poisoning of ex-double agent Sergei Skripal and were subsequently kicked out of the country, Dutch authorities announced this morning.
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The film, which tells the true story of Barry Seal, a pilot who worked as a double agent for the CIA and Medellín cartels in the '80s, was shooting on location at the time.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's foreign intelligence agency chief Sergei Naryshkin said on Wednesday that the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal in Britain was an act of provocation by U.S. and British intelligence services.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May has said GRU officers used a nerve agent to try to kill former double agent Sergei Skripal, who was found unconscious in the English city of Salisbury in March.
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Polyus held its capital markets day at the London Stock Exchange (LSE) amid a deep crisis in relations between London and Moscow over a nerve toxin attack on a Russian double agent in Britain.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - No wonder Rex Tillerson was willing to diverge from his boss on Monday and call out Russia directly for the alleged poisoning of a former double agent living in Britain.
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Corbyn last year was criticized by opponents and lawmakers in his own party after he questioned the government's decision to blame Russia for a nerve toxin attack on a former double agent in England.
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LONDON, April 5 (Reuters) - Yulia Skripal, who was poisoned in Britain last month along with her father, a former Russian double agent, issued a statement on Thursday saying the "entire episode is somewhat disorientating".
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Moscow has come under increasing international pressure following the nerve toxin attack on a former Russian double agent in England which has led to the expulsion of Russian diplomats from countries around the globe.
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SKOPJE (Reuters) - Macedonia said on Monday it would expel a Russian diplomat from the country over the poisoning in Britain of a Russian former double agent that the British government has blamed on Moscow.
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In a covert power move, Adal offered the double agent money and freedom to perpetuate the rumor that Iran is breaking the nuclear arms deal by running a secret parallel plan with North Korea.
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The United Kingdom expelled 23 Russian diplomats over accusations the Kremlin was behind a nerve toxin attack in March on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the English city of Salisbury.
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It said in April it had found an increase in programs which may have breached impartiality rules since the nerve agent attack on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter the previous month.
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Corbyn last year was criticised by opponents and lawmakers in his own party after he questioned the government's decision to blame Russia for a nerve toxin attack on a former double agent in England.
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Tensions between Russia and the West reached a boiling point last week when the United Kingdom accused Putin of personally directing a nerve-gas attack on a former Russian double agent living in Britain.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Britain needs to show proof that Russia was behind last month's poisoning of a former Russian double agent and his daughter in England, the German government's coordinator for Russia said on Thursday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A nerve agent attack on a former double agent in Britain is a mystery that needs the attention of someone like fictional detective Hercule Poirot, Russia's ambassador to London said on Thursday.
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Earlier this year, Austria was one of the few European countries not to expel Russian diplomats over allegations Moscow was behind the poisoning of a former double agent in the English town of Salisbury.
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What to watch: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo certified earlier this month that Russia had illegally used chemical weapons in the poisoning of Russian ex-double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in England.
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Here's the news: • U.N.-backed chemical weapons experts are due to visit Britain today to analyze the nerve agent, Novichok, used in a recent attack on a former Russian double agent and his daughter.
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At the time of the call, the UK had already expelled 23 Russian diplomats in retaliation for Russia's poisoning of double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the British town of Salisbury.
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Russia will soon expel British diplomats in retaliation for Britain's decision to kick out 23 Russian envoys over a chemical attack on a former Russian double agent, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday.
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The announcement comes on the heels of a nerve agent attack earlier this month on Sergei Skripal, a former Russian double agent who worked for the U.K.'s secret service, and his daughter, Yulia.
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A former Russian double agent convicted in Moscow of betraying dozens of agents to British intelligence was critically ill in hospital on Tuesday after he was exposed to an unidentified substance in southern England.
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I'm not going so far as to suggest Oleg has turned double-agent offscreen, but Nina's death is still fresh in his mind, and quite possibly informing whatever the hell he's doing right now.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Britain's ambassador to Russia, Laurie Bristow, attended a meeting at Russia's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday where the poisoning in Britain of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal was discussed, the diplomat said.
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Moscow's ties with European Union countries are strained after Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014, its involvement in Syria and eastern Ukraine and the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in Britain in March.
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The sanctions followed U.S. joint statements denouncing the Russian government's suspected attack on former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripal using a chemical nerve agent known as Novichok in Salisbury, England.
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Medical tests on former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, ordered by a London court, had found they may both have had their mental capacity compromised through exposure to the nerve agent.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Russia has not responded to Britain's demand to explain by midnight how a Soviet-era nerve toxin was used to strike down a former Russian double agent, the Russian embassy in London said.
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It came in for criticism from its allies for being among the minority of EU member countries that did not expel any Russian diplomats over the poisoning of the former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A second police officer is being treated in hospital for suspected poisoning after a chemical attack on a former Russian double agent but the symptoms are minor, the Mail Online reported on Thursday.
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Activists and security services are on high alert for poison attacks with origins in Russia following the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in Britain earlier this year, blamed by London on Moscow.
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Russia must explain by Tuesday at midnight how Novichok, the rare Russian-manufactured nerve agent, poisoned a former Russian double agent, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter Yulia on March 4 in the town of Salisbury.
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Speaking in Berlin on Wednesday, Britain's new prime minister, Boris Johnson, also cited the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in England last year as a reason not to readmit Russia to the G7.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The leaders of France, Germany, Britain and the United States issued a joint statement on Thursday condemning a chemical attack on a Russian former double agent in England and blaming Moscow for it.
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One of the two people in critical condition is a former Russian double agent convicted of treason in Moscow for betraying dozens of spies to British intelligence, two sources close to the investigation told Reuters.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will expel a significant number of Russian diplomats as part of its response to the poisoning for a former double agent in southern England, Sky News reported on Wednesday, citing unidentified sources.
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Her hair may be a wig for the Russian spy film The Red Sparrow, in which she plays sexy Russian spy Dominika Egorova, who falls for a CIA officer and considers becoming a double agent.
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SALISBURY, England (Reuters) - Inspectors from the world's chemical weapons watchdog on Monday began examining the poison used to strike down a former Russian double agent in England, in an attack that London blames on Moscow.
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The attack on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter has invited parallels with the 2006 killing of Alexander Litvinenko, which a UK inquiry said was probably approved by Russian President Vladimir Putin himself.
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Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with a military-grade nerve toxin that had been left on the front door of their home in England, British counter-terrorism police said.
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Former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter remain in critical condition after being poisoned with a nerve agent in the English town of Salisbury on Sunday, and suspicion has naturally fallen on Russia.
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The big picture: The U.S., Canada and 13 E.U. countries have joined the U.K. in retaliating over the poisoning of Russian ex-double agent Sergei Skripal in the English town of Salisbury three weeks ago.
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When Coriolanus leaves Rome to offer his military services to his former enemies, Mr. Lepage has him hop into a silver car and drive through sunlight and rain like a double agent in a thriller.
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But later, it turned out, she had affairs with two top F.B.I. counterintelligence agents in California, James J. Smith and William Cleveland Jr., and became a double agent for some 18 years, starting in 1984.
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Moscow denies any involvement in the attempted murder of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, who were found slumped on a public bench in the English city of Salisbury on March 4.
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The European Union sanctioned on Monday two senior Russian military intelligence officials and two of their officers blamed for poisoning a former Russian double agent in Britain last year, a decision Moscow dismissed as groundless.
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Putin said he hoped a new British prime minister would work toward improving bilateral relations, badly soured last year by the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in England that London blamed on Moscow.
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Mr. Hansen, who once kept an apartment and office in Beijing, repeatedly offered to be a double agent for the United States against China, the Justice Department said in a 15-count complaint against him.
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The Trump administration has issued a second round of economic sanctions against Russia in connection with the March 2018 nerve agent poisoning of Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, England.
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It's also possible to relate to Britain and the Netherlands going after Moscow for trying to hack a multilateral chemical-weapons-monitoring body — especially after the dramatic poisoning of a former double agent in Britain.
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Former double agent Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, have been in hospital in a critical condition since they were found unconscious on Sunday on a bench outside a shopping centre in Salisbury.
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On March 26, only two weeks after he took office, Germany joined 28 other countries in expelling Russian diplomats in response to the poisoning of a Russian-British double agent, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter.
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Britain is sending 100 military service personnel with expertise in dealing with chemicals to the city where a Russian double agent was poisoned with a nerve agent, police and the defense ministry said on Friday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's security minister called on Russia to give details about the Novichok nerve agent attack on a former double agent and his daughter after two British citizens were poisoned with the same substance.
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Read: Russia's spy chief says Trump and May ordered Salisbury nerve agent attack Russian double agent Sergei Skripal has survived an assassination attempt by poisoning and is "improving rapidly," according to the hospital treating him.
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But it's something The Americans does quietly, and very well, in part by deepening a role that could be an archetype (the double agent femme fatale, in Nina's case) and into something far more complex.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Tuesday it was ready to cooperate if Britain asks it for help investigating an incident involving a former Russian double agent who fell ill after exposure to an unknown substance.
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The U.S. officials were among 150 Western diplomats thrown out by Moscow after 25 countries joined the U.K. in expelling Russian officials over the chemical attack on a former Russian double agent living in the Britain.
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Britain gave President Vladimir Putin until midnight on Tuesday to explain how a nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union was used to strike down a former Russian double agent who passed secrets to British intelligence.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Britain's ambassador in Moscow, Laurie Bristow, said on Tuesday Britain expected an explanation from Russia on how a nerve agent used in an attack on a former double agent came to be in Britain.
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Second, BuzzFeed News reporters revealed that Alexander Poteyev — a Russian double agent whose death was trumpeted by the Kremlin years ago — was in fact very much alive and living all but openly within the United States.
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SKOPJE, March 26 (Reuters) - Macedonia said on Monday it would expel a Russian diplomat from the country over the poisoning in Britain of a Russian former double agent that the British government has blamed on Moscow.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's counter terrorism police will lead the investigation into a mysterious illness that struck down a Russian former double agent and his daughter in the southern English city of Salisbury, police said on Tuesday.
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Relations between Moscow and London have been strained since the poisoning former Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal in Britain in March, an act Britain has blamed on Russia but in which the Kremlin denies any involvement.
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Dawn Sturgess, 44, died after she was exposed to Novichok in western England, just a few miles from where Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were attacked with the same poison four months ago.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will respond if it identifies who was responsible for an attack on a former Russian double agent in the English city of Salisbury, a spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday.
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But diplomatic relations between London and Moscow have hit a post-Cold War low after the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in an English city that Prime Minister Theresa May blamed squarely on Russia.
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Russia followed through with its move to expel 23 British diplomats on Saturday in response to an equivalent expulsion of Russian diplomats by the United Kingdom over the poisoning of a double agent on British soil.
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SALISBURY, England, March 9 (Reuters) - Britain's interior minister on Friday visited the scene where a Russian double agent was found unconscious on a bench outside a shopping centre after being poisoned in a nerve agent attack.
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If a friendly intelligence service managed to turn a high-ranking ISIS official into a double agent, or managed to place one of its secret agents inside ISIS, that agent's life would be placed at risk.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Britain's accusations that Moscow was behind the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in England "border on banditry", Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying by RIA news agency on Sunday.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian state TV has accused Britain of poisoning former double agent Sergei Skripal in southern England as part of a special operation designed to spoil Russia's hosting of the soccer World Cup this summer.
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The United States on Wednesday announced it would impose fresh sanctions on Russia after Washington determined Moscow had used a nerve agent against a former Russian double agent, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter, Yulia, in Britain.
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Former double agent Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, have been in hospital since they were found unconscious on Sunday on a bench outside a shopping center in the quiet cathedral city of Salisbury.
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Certainly Vladimir Putin's Russia is asking for punishment when his agents use a chemical weapon against a double agent, brazenly meddle in Western elections, cheat in international sports, ruthlessly ravage Ukrainian territory or violate human rights.
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They've done that now as well: Kim is a fascinating, nuanced character who will face some hard choices when she sees her boyfriend's new wardrobe; Nacho has become New Mexico's most tortured drug-dealing double agent.
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LONDON — Britain has evidence that Russia has been manufacturing and stockpiling the nerve agent used in an attack on a former Russian double agent on British soil, the British foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, said on Sunday.
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It's been one year since the nerve-agent attack in a Salisbury park that killed a member of the public and put ex–double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in the hospital for weeks.
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The Trump administration and its allies around the world expelled hundreds of Russian diplomats earlier this week after a former double agent was poisoned in the UK by operatives thought to be working for the Kremlin.
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AMESBURY, England (Reuters) - Britain demanded on Thursday that Russia provide details about the Novichok nerve agent attack on a former double agent and his daughter after two British citizens were struck down with the same poison.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Saturday its priority was looking after its staff in Russia, after Moscow expelled 23 British diplomats in a escalating crisis between the two countries over the poisoning of a double agent.
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" The story of the British double agent known as "Jack King," who posed (as Mr. Toby does) as an ordinary bank clerk but in fact worked for MI5, was the first kernel of inspiration for "Transcription.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A British police officer, one of the first to respond to the poisoning of a former Russian double agent, was released from hospital on Thursday after more than two weeks of treatment, officials said.
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This week, 60 American diplomats left Russia as part of a tit-for-tat series of expulsions that followed last month's nerve-gas poisoning of Sergei V. Skripal, a former Russian double agent, and his daughter.
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BuzzFeed News reported last year that he renamed one of his UK companies "The No Vichok Ltd" a month after the nerve agent attack in Salisbury against a former Russian spy turned double agent for MI20123.
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The US decision was made after the US and United Kingdom government blamed Moscow for the poisoning of a former Russian double agent, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter, Yulia Skripal, on British soil on March 4.
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Russia's already-fraught ties with the West have soured further after London accused it of poisoning former double-agent Sergei Skripal in Britain this month, leading to countries around the world expelling scores of Russian diplomats.
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Britain has yet to respond to Putin's victory as it comes when U.K.-Russia relations have hit a new low following the attempted murder of a former Russian double agent on British soil in early March.
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Skripal's links to Russia's security services, and his subsequent work as a double agent for the U.K., put Moscow firmly in the spotlight for being behind the attack, although Russia has so far denied any involvement.
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Russia says that it wants to meet with British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to discuss the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal last month, which spurred heightened diplomatic tensions between Moscow and the West.
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There is no evidence so far that Halper attempted to join the Trump campaign and act as a double agent; nor is there evidence that he conducted any kind of illegal snooping on Page or Papadopoulos.
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SALISBURY, England (Reuters) - In the years before Sergei Skripal was struck down with his daughter by a mystery substance outside a British shopping center, the former Russian double agent lost both a wife and a son.
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Cady, in her naïveté, starts out as a double agent, joining the Plastics so she can report back to her sardonic rebel friends, Janis (Barrett Wilbert Weed, in the Lizzy Caplan role) and Damian (Grey Henson).
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow is still ready to work with London to investigate a chemical weapons attack in Britain on a former Russian double agent, but Britain is refusing to cooperate, Russia's foreign ministry said on Thursday.
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At an EU meeting in Brussels, leaders voiced agreement that Moscow was responsible for the March 4 attack in the English town, which has left a former Russian double agent and his daughter fighting for their lives.
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LONDON, March 14 (Reuters) - Russia has not responded to Britain's demand to explain by midnight how a Soviet-era nerve toxin was used to strike down a former Russian double agent, the Russian embassy in London said.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday Britain was using the case of poisoned former double agent Sergei Skripal to rally its European partners behind it at a time when Brexit was isolating London.
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It all comes down to Dwight, whose double-agent status has put him in the position of being able to influence who wins the war, and Eugene, whose bullet-making prowess just might give Negan the edge.
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SALISBURY, England (Reuters) - Britain warned Russia on Tuesday of a robust response if the Kremlin was behind a mysterious illness that has struck down a former double agent convicted of betraying dozens of spies to British intelligence.
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ST PETERSBURG/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he hoped Britain's next prime minister would forget about the poisoning of a former double agent in England last year in order to improve battered ties.
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Relations between Moscow and London have been strained since the poisoning of former Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal in Britain in March, an act Britain has blamed on Russia but in which the Kremlin denies any involvement.
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Rowley, 45, and Dawn Sturgess, 44, fell ill after being exposed to the poison in southwest England, close to where Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were attacked with the same substance in March.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain's foreign minister won further support from the European Union and NATO on Monday over a nerve agent attack on a former Russian double agent as he denounced Moscow's denials of involvement as "increasingly absurd".
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Washington imposed an initial batch of sanctions last year on Russia after determining that Moscow had used a nerve agent against a former Russian double agent, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter Yulia, in Britain, which Moscow denies.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday it would respond in kind to the mass expulsion of Russian diplomats by the West over the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in the English city of Salisbury.
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Trump expelled 60 Russian diplomats from the U.S. last week in solidarity with an initial move by Britain and other countries over the apparent Russian poisoning of a former double agent on British soil earlier this month.
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The United States on Wednesday announced it would impose more sanctions on Russia after determining Moscow was responsible for a nerve agent attack in Britain on a former Russian double agent, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter, Yulia.
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LONDON, March 22 (Reuters) - A second police officer is being treated in hospital for suspected poisoning after a chemical attack on a former Russian double agent but the symptoms are minor, the Mail Online reported on Thursday.
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The two had met while imprisoned on Jersey, and Chapman – a kindred spirit, habitual reprobate and former double agent who was renowned for his illustrious wartime service – helped to popularise Pleasants' morally ambiguous tales of derring-do.
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Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were likely poisoned at home, officials said Wednesday, after police found the highest concentration of a deadly nerve agent on the front door of Skripal's house in Salisbury.
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On Wednesday the White House announced it would be imposing fresh sanctions on Moscow over its role in the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in the U.K. earlier this year.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is sending 100 military service personnel with expertise in dealing with chemicals to the city where a Russian double agent was poisoned with a nerve agent, police and the defense ministry said on Friday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain on Wednesday welcomed Washington's decision to impose fresh sanctions on Russia after the United States determined that Moscow had used a nerve agent against a former Russian double agent and his daughter in Britain.
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They may have suspected he had been turned and was now acting as a double agent for the US, or they may have decided tat he really had given information about the nuclear program to Iran's enemies.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki condemned on Wednesday an attempt to murder in Britain of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and demanded Russia, Poland's former master, to address the UK's questions regarding the case.
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Novichok, a series of nerve agents secretly developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, was used earlier this year in the attempted murder of Sergei V. Skripal, a Russian spy turned double agent for Britain.
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British police have identified several Russians who they believe were behind the nerve agent attack on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, the Press Association reported on Thursday, citing a source close to the investigation.
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Proponents of greater gas storage have also raised concerns about Britain's reliance on imports in the light of increased political tensions with Russia following a nerve toxin attack on a former Russian double agent on British soil.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain, the United States, Germany and France jointly called on Russia on Thursday to explain a military-grade nerve toxin attack in England on a former Russian double agent, which they said threatened Western security.
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Former double agent Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, were found unconscious on Sunday on a bench in the southern English city of Salisbury and have been in a critical condition in hospital since then.
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Former double agent Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, have been in hospital in a critical condition since Sunday, when they were found unconscious on a bench in the southern English cathedral city of Salisbury.
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None of the dev team had any clue that the hacker, who went by bushing and was known for his skills with reverse engineering, had been a double agent working for the company whose phones they were hacking.
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Some British lawmakers have urged Prime Minister Theresa May to freeze the private assets of senior members in Russian President Vladimir Putin's circle in retaliation for the poisoning of a former double agent in England two weeks ago.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow is in no way connected to the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Britain, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday, adding that the accusations against Russia are groundless.
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LONDON, March 13 (Reuters) - Britain's media regulator Ofcom said Russian broadcaster RT could lose its UK licence if Theresa May's government determines that Moscow was behind the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in England this month.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Russian Embassy in London said it would consider any secret resettlement of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, the former Russian double agent and his daughter who were poisoned last month, as an abduction of its citizens.
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British prosecutors have charged the man identified as Boshirov, and his alleged accomplice, identified as Alexander Petrov, with attempted murder for spraying Novichok on the door handle at the Salisbury home of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal.
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But relations have instead soured over allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Russia's alleged poisoning of a former double agent in Britain and Putin's support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria.
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Russia's so-called oligarchs who have relocated to London could be under threat as there have been calls to deny them access to their London lifestyles following the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in Britain.
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Russia expelled 23 British diplomats last Saturday in a carefully calibrated retaliatory move against London, which has accused the Kremlin of orchestrating a nerve toxin attack on a former Russian double agent and his daughter in southern England.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British double agent Kim Philby detailed his life of betrayal and the ease with which he was able to pass secrets to his Soviet controllers in newly-discovered video footage broadcast by the BBC on Monday.
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Russia's relations with the United States have further soured recently as Washington expelled Russian diplomats over the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in Britain and imposed sanctions on Russians for alleged links to cyber attacks.
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Past cases include Anthony Blunt, a notorious British double agent who spied for the Soviets, and Benito Mussolini, who was stripped of an honour awarded by King George V in 1923 after declaring war on Britain in 1940.
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The attempted murder of Sergei Skripal, a former Russian double agent who was found unresponsive in southwest England earlier this month, poisoned with a deadly nerve agent, may be the moment when "plausible deniability" has reached its limits.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's delegation to the international chemical weapons watchdog said on Thursday that the West was acting as a prosecutor, judge and executioner in the case of the poisoning of a former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Russia's embassy in London said on Tuesday it was seriously concerned by British media reporting of the hospitalization of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and complained that the incident was being used to demonize Russia.
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BRUSSELS/MOSCOW (Reuters) - The European Union sanctioned on Monday the heads of Russia's military intelligence and two of their officers blamed for poisoning a former Russian double agent in Britain last year, a decision Moscow dismissed as groundless.
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Former double agent Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, have been in hospital in a critical condition since March 4, when they were found unconscious on a bench in the southern English cathedral city of Salisbury.
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The Kremlin has never acknowledged using the authority granted under the law and has denied specific accusations, including that it tried to kill a former double agent, Sergei V. Skripal, with a nerve agent in Britain last year.
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The Kremlin has never acknowledged using the authority granted under the law and has denied specific accusations, including that it tried to kill a former double agent, Sergei V. Skripal, with a nerve agent in Britain last year.
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MOSCOW, March 6 (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Tuesday it was ready to cooperate if Britain asks it for help investigating an incident involving a former Russian double agent who fell ill after exposure to an unknown substance.
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Russia's Investigative Committee said on Friday it had opened a criminal investigation into the attempted murder of Yulia Skripal, daughter of former double agent Sergei Skripal, and what it said was the murder of another Russian in Britain.
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In 2016, high-level CIA officials ordered a full review of the source's record and grew suspicious he might have become a double agent after he rejected an offer of exfiltration from the agency, according to the Times.
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Britain has called for an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council to update members on the investigation into a nerve agent attack on a former Russian double agent and his daughter, the Foreign Office said Wednesday.
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MOSCOW, March 13 (Reuters) - Russian state TV has accused Britain of poisoning former double agent Sergei Skripal in southern England as part of a special operation designed to spoil Russia's hosting of the soccer World Cup this summer.
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Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday that the Russian state was culpable for the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal, a former double agent who betrayed dozens of spies of Britain's MI6 foreign intelligence service, and his daughter.
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She wrote that after being abducted as she was leaving a dinner at a Madrid country-club dinner with high-ranking Nazis in 1944, she shot one of the kidnappers, who turned out to be a double agent.
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Britain and Russia have been trading public insults over the use of a Soviet-era nerve agent called Novichok to strike down former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the English city of Salisbury.
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Dawn Sturgess, 44, died on Sunday just over a week after she was exposed to Novichok in southwestern England, a few miles from where Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were attacked with the same poison.
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SALISBURY, England (Reuters) - A nerve agent was used to deliberately poison a former Russian double agent and his daughter, Britain's top counter-terrorism officer said on Wednesday, in a case that threatens to further damage London's ties with Moscow.
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He has also said that the annexation of Crimea was legitimate, and openly criticized the coordinated EU response to the use of a nerve agent in Salisbury that left a Russian double agent and his daughter in critical condition.
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Alexander S. Vindman's testimony to House impeachment investigators about his concerns regarding Trump's dealings with Ukraine, President Donald Trump's media defenders wasted no time smearing the lieutenant colonel and Purple Heart recipient as some sort of Ukrainian double agent.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin called Sergei Skripal — the former Russian double agent who was poisoned with a nerve agent in Salisbury, England — "a traitor to the motherland" while addressing an energy conference in Moscow, according to the Financial Times.
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It's also apparent that Dwight's double-agent status makes him a crucial figure that could help swing the outcome of the war (though Daryl and the others would have to work through their trust issues before that could happen).
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday it was "highly likely" that Moscow was responsible for the poisoning in England of Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter using a military-grade nerve agent.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States agrees with Britain's assessment that Russia was "likely responsible" for the poisoning in England of a Russian double agent and his daughter, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a statement said on Monday.
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U.K. prime minister Theresa May just laid down the gauntlet to Russia -- saying NO members of the British government OR the royal family will attend the World Cup over a chemical attack on a double agent living in England.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May's office posted a picture of the wrong English city when it sought to mark the anniversary of the poisoning of a former Russian double agent that London has blamed on the Kremlin.
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British police raced to identify the unknown substance suspected of striking the former Russian double agent, as Britain threatened to pull out of the soccer World Cup in Russia if Moscow was shown to be behind the mysterious illness.
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"It sends a very clear message to Russia that it has costs," Stoltenberg said of the March 4 attack on a former Russian double agent and his daughter, which the West blames on Moscow although the Kremlin denies this.
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The Sympathizer is the caustic, hyper-verbal tale of a double agent embedded in California after the end of the war, sending information back to Vietnam about the activities of the men who are both his friends and enemies.
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SALISBURY, England (Reuters) - Prince Charles and his wife Camilla visited Salisbury on Friday to support the city as it tries to recover from the impact of this year's poison attack on a former Russian double agent and his daughter.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Russia's ambassador to Britain, Alexander Yakovenko, said on Thursday he was happy to hear that Yulia Skripal, the daughter of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal, was recovering after she was poisoned a month ago in England.
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" Ms. Green, 35, grew up in Paris and worked in theater before making her screen debut in 2003 in Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Dreamers," later appearing as the double agent Vesper Lynd in the 2006 James Bond movie, "Casino Royale.
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BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovakia will recall its ambassador to Russia for consultations over the poisoning of a former Russian double agent with a nerve agent in Britain, and may take stronger steps, Foreign Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajcak said on Wednesday.
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson took a bold stance at odds with the White House Monday, specifically pointing a finger at Russia for the poisoning of a former Russian double agent and his daughter in the UK last week.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's top counter-terrorism officer said on Monday that detectives were unable to say if the Novichok that two Britons were exposed to was the same that struck down a former Russian double agent and his daughter.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's defense secretary said on Thursday that Russia should shut up and go away as London and Moscow traded insults over the nerve agent attack on a former Russian double agent in the English city of Salisbury.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain's National Security Adviser Mark Sedwill told the Western NATO alliance on Thursday that the nerve agent attack on a Russian double agent was an issue for all 29 allies and blamed Moscow for the attempted murder.
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Russia denied any involvement in the attack and simply declined to say anything about how a Soviet-era nerve toxin ended up striking down a former double agent on the normally genteel streets of the English city of Salisbury.
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There is, of course, and his name is Nacho Varga (Michael Mando), who was blackmailed into serving Fring as a double agent in Season 4 after Fring realized that Nacho had tried to murder the Salamanca overlord, Don Hector.
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In March, Dudley helped organise a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and top UK businesses in a bid to smooth relations damaged by the poisoning in Britain of former double agent Sergei Skripal, for which Britain blames Russia.
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The Kremlin's apparent poisoning of a Russian double agent on the streets of Britain with one of the most fatal chemical substances on the planet is one of those missteps, an unconscionable act that should be treated as such.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Britain accused Moscow on Wednesday of running an assassination program to eliminate its enemies, while Russia said Britain may itself have orchestrated the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in England.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow finds that no progress has been made toward resolving a standoff with London over the poisoning of Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Britain, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.
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"Conspiracy theories have grown around what I did and why," McCain wrote, saying those included that he's a "double agent for Russia" and that he "acted out of jealousy" that Donald Trump won a presidential election when he didn't.
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The conservative chancellor swung behind Britain after the poison attack on a former Russian double agent in England last month, expelling four diplomats despite uneasiness among a political class that is wary of confrontation with Germany's giant eastern neighbour.
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LONDON, April 5 (Reuters) - Russia's ambassador to Britain, Alexander Yakovenko, said on Thursday he was happy to hear that Yulia Skripal, the daughter of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal, was recovering after she was poisoned a month ago in England.
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RIGA/TALLINN/PRAGUE (Reuters) - Russia is expelling diplomats from Latvia, Estonia and the Czech Republic in a widely expected response to similar moves by the three countries in the wake of the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in Britain.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Russia's intelligence agencies spied on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia for at least five years before they were attacked with a nerve agent in March, the national security adviser to Britain's prime minister said.
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However, when Branson invited former U.S. President Barack Obama to the British Virgin Islands in 2017, the Brit billionaire was spotted using a Slingshot Dwarfcraft foil board as well as a Cabrinha Double Agent, according to sports equipment retailer MACkite.
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Putin was accused in September by Britain's security minister of being "ultimately responsible" for the alleged attempt in May by Russian intelligence officers to murder former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in England with a nerve agent.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has written to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to arrange external verification of a military-grade nerve toxin used to attack a Russian double agent, Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman said on Friday.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Investigative Committee said on Friday it had opened a criminal investigation into the attempted murder of Yulia Skripal, daughter of former double agent Sergei Skripal, and what it said was the murder of another Russian in Britain.
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Dawn Sturgess, 44, died on July 8, just over a week after being exposed to Novichok near the city of Salisbury where Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were struck down with the same poison in March.
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Betrayed by a double agent, Nokuthula Simelane, a 23-year-old college graduate working clandestinely as a courier for insurgents fighting to overthrow apartheid, was lured to an underground parking garage in Johannesburg and bundled into the trunk of a car.
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Trump, for his part, has thus far avoided impugning Vindman's patriotism or suggesting he's some sort of double agent, but on Wednesday morning, Trump posted a tweet complaining that "people that I never even heard of" are testifying about the call.
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Dawn Sturgess, 44, died this month, just over a week after she was exposed to Novichok near the city of Salisbury where Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were struck down with the same poison in March.
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Unlike neighboring Poland and Hungary, Slovakia has avoided clashing with Brussels over the rule of law, but was the only central European country not to expel any Russian diplomats over the March poisoning of a Russian former double agent in Britain.
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One of the hardest scenes to write was the one between KGB operative Oleg and FBI agent Stan, who can't say very much to each other, despite both of them feeling deep grief over the recent death of double agent Nina.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is looking to find other countries to supply gas as part of steps being taken by London against Russia following the poisoning of a former double agent on British soil, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday.
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Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova vowed that an "adequate response" would be forthcoming, and repeated calls for Britain to share information on the March 4 nerve attack on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his 33-year-old daughter.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Interfax news agency cited a source as saying on Wednesday that the Russian embassy in Britain plans to ask for consular access to Yulia Skripal, who was poisoned together with her father, Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO accused Russia on Thursday of trying to destabilise the West with new nuclear weapons, cyber attacks and covert action, including the poisoning of a Russian former double agent in Britain, that blurred the line between peace and war.
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LONDON, March 19 (Reuters) - The cost of insuring exposure to Russian sovereign debt hit the highest since February 23 on Monday following rising tensions with the West after a nerve toxin attack on a former Russian double agent on British soil.
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Additionally on Wednesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said it would retaliate after 23 of its diplomats were expelled by British Prime Minister Theresa May over a chemical attack on a former Russian double agent in England that May blamed on Moscow.
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The poisoning of the Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in England in March led to tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats by Moscow and the West and was one reason for Britain's push to strengthen the OPCW.
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MOSCOW, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Russia's delegation to the international chemical weapons watchdog said on Thursday that the West was acting as a prosecutor, judge and executioner in the case of the poisoning of a former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Global investors are unlikely to start shunning Russia's sovereign debt even though Russian entities and individuals are seen at risk of further sanctions over a nerve agent attack on a former Russian double agent and his daughter in Britain.
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Sergei Skripal, a 66-year-old former Russian double agent, and his 33-year-old daughter Yulia were poisoned with a rare toxin on Sunday at a shopping mall in Salisbury, southern England, and remain critically ill in hospital, police said.
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LONDON, March 6 (Reuters) - Russia's embassy in London said on Tuesday it was seriously concerned by British media reporting of the hospitalisation of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and complained that the incident was being used to demonise Russia.
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The double agent Oleg Gordievsky helped defuse the 1983 "Able Archer" showdown, which almost saw the world go up in flames as Moscow brass responded to a NATO nuclear exercise as if it were a real preparation for all-out war.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia expelled 23 British diplomats on Saturday in a carefully calibrated retaliatory move against London, which has accused the Kremlin of orchestrating a nerve toxin attack on a former Russian double agent and his daughter in southern England.
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In 2009, a Jordanian doctor — brought to the C.I.A. by a G.I.D. officer after the doctor said he had penetrated Al Qaeda's leadership — turned out to be a double agent and blew himself up at a remote base in Afghanistan.
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Russia has denied responsibility for the March poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, who were found unconscious on a park bench suffering from what the United Kingdom said were the symptoms of a Soviet-developed nerve agent.
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LONDON, March 4 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May's office posted a picture of the wrong English city when it sought to mark the anniversary of the poisoning of a former Russian double agent that London has blamed on the Kremlin.
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The daughter of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal is getting better after spending three weeks in critical condition due to a nerve toxin attack at his home in England, the hospital where she is being treated said on Thursday.
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Dawn Sturgess, 44, died after she was exposed to Novichok on June 30 in western England, just a few miles from where Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were attacked with the same poison four months ago.
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Former double agent Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, have been in hospital in a critical condition since March 4 when they were found unconscious on a bench outside a shopping center in the southern English city of Salisbury.
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SALISBURY (Reuters) - Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia remain in a critical condition in intensive care in hospital, British police said on Wednesday as they appealed for witnesses to come forward with any information about the case.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Russia expelled two Spanish diplomats on Friday, Spain's public broadcaster RTVE said, as Moscow responded to the expulsion of two Russian officials from Madrid earlier this week following the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in Britain.
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He did not mention Russia's annexation of Crimea, its meddling in the U.S. and other elections or the death of a woman in Great Britain, who British authorities say likely died from poison meant for a former Russian double agent.
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The NATO leader last week accused Russia of trying to destabilize the West with new nuclear weapons, cyber attacks and covert action, including the poisoning of a Russian former double agent and his daughter in the British town of Salisbury.
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Mr. Moore, who has denied any wrongdoing, insisted in recent interviews and in court papers that he had become a double agent not long after getting his assignment from K2 Intelligence and had secretly worked to help anti-asbestos advocates.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom rejected Russian claims on Saturday that the country could be the source of a nerve toxin used against a former Russian double agent and his daughter in Britain, calling them "unacceptable and unfounded".
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Mr. Budanov started out in Soviet intelligence in the 1960s as a lowly officer whose work included buying food and other provisions for Kim Philby, the notorious British double agent who defected to Moscow in 1963 and died there in 1988.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has called for an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council to update members on the investigation into a nerve agent attack on a former Russian double agent and his daughter, the Foreign Office said on Wednesday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has told its citizens traveling to Russia to be aware of anti-British sentiment and harassment and avoid commenting on politics, as relations between the two countries sour over the poisoning of a former Russian double agent.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Sunday that Russia has been stockpiling the deadly nerve agent used to poison a Russian former double agent in England and has been investigating how such weapons can be used in assassinations.
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By his own admission, Mr. van Loggerenberg, who was leading an investigation into the tobacco industry, had a brief romantic relationship with a double agent — a lawyer who represented a tobacco manufacturer and had also operated as a government informant.
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The F.B.I. agent Dom DiPierro dutifully follows the orders of the Dark Army operatives threatening her family and outs her slain supervisor, Agent Santiago, as a double agent — for a drug cartel, rather than for his true employer, the Dark Army.
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Russia and the United Kingdom have been embroiled in a bitter diplomatic fight since Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter, 33-year-old Yulia Skripal, were poisoned in the English cathedral city of Salisbury on March 4.
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The mass expulsions are being done in solidarity with the UK's recent decision to throw out almost two dozen Russian diplomats after it said the Russians were behind the poisoning of an ex-Russian double agent and his adult daughter.
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The White House announced last week it was expelling 60 Russian staffers and their families in response to the recent poisoning of a former double agent and his daughter in the United Kingdom, allegedly at the hands of the Kremlin.
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In a Monday morning call with United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, Tillerson discussed the attempted murder of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the English city of Salisbury, according to a State Department statement.
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On the broader world scene, Russia has been holding joint military exercises with China, abetting sanctions-busting smuggling by North Korea, and is suspected in the poisoning in Britain last week of a retired Russian double agent and his daughter.
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LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A military-grade nerve toxin attack on former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter may have left them with compromised mental capacity and it is unclear whether they will recover, a British judge said on Thursday.
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Trump's aides convinced him in March to sign off on the expulsion of 60 suspected Russian spies working in the US on diplomatic cover, in response to the suspected Russian nerve agent poisoning of a double agent on British soil.
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Despite the Kremlin's insistence otherwise, the investigation still points to Russia's involvement — Skripal was a former Russian spy turned double agent for the U.K. — May said Monday that it was "highly likely" that Russia was responsible for the attempted murders.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will introduce a new law on espionage to counter the threat from potentially 'hostile' states such as Russia and China after the 2018 chemical attack on a former Russian double agent that London blamed on Russian military intelligence.
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In a joint statement with the leaders of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom on Thursday, the US blamed Moscow for a brazen nerve agent attack on a Russian double agent and his daughter on British soil on March 4.
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The United States also joined Britain, Germany and France in demanding that Russia explain a military-grade nerve toxin attack in England on a former Russian double agent, with Trump saying: "It certainly looks like the Russians were behind" the incident.
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Trump told reporters during a White House event with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar that "it certainly looks like the Russians were behind" the use of a nerve agent to attack Sergei Skripal, a former Russian double agent in England.
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ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - The chief of Britain's foreign intelligence service warned the Kremlin on Monday not to underestimate the West after a brazen nerve agent attack on a retired double agent in England stoked fears about Russian covert activity abroad.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has warned of a robust response if Russia fails to explain how a nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union was used in an attack on a former Russian double agent who passed secrets to British intelligence.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Following are diplomatic measures announced against Russia by the United States, Canada, several EU countries and Ukraine in response to the poisoning of a former Russian double agent with military-grade nerve agent in the English town of Salisbury.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's foreign ministry said on Monday British threats to boycott the 2018 soccer World Cup over the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in England would damage ties with Moscow and hurt world sport, Interfax news agency reported.
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Skripal, 66, a double agent who was swapped in a spy exchange deal in 2010 and went to live in England, and his daughter Yulia Skripal, 33, were found unconscious on a public bench in a shopping centre in Salisbury on March 4.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has not identified the suspects who carried out the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal but is stepping up protection for other defectors who might also be at risk, the UK's national security adviser said on Tuesday.
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VILNIUS (Reuters) - Russia is expelling three Lithuanian diplomats in response to a similar move by the Baltic country in the wake of the poisoning of a former Russian double agent and his daughter in Britain, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The poisoning of a former Russian double agent in Britain with a nerve agent last month shows "how reckless Russia is prepared to be", the head of Britain's GCHQ spy agency said on Thursday in a scathing attack on the Kremlin.
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The pair, a local 44-year-old woman and a 45-year-old man, were hospitalized after being found unwell on Saturday in Amesbury, just miles away from Salisbury where ex-double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were attacked in March.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's response on Wednesday to the nerve agent attack on a Russian double agent in southern England does not go far enough and senior Kremlin figures should be targeted with sanctions, the widow of a Russian dissident murdered in London said.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The investigation into a nerve agent attack on former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter is likely to take several months as it is one of the most complex undertaken by British counter terrorism officers, police said on Monday.
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Libby: I've just realized that William's weird apartment is a pretty potent symbol of all the ways that being a secret or double agent can poison your life and cut you off from even the most normal, everyday human emotions and experiences.
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LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Yulia Skripal on Thursday made her first public comments since being poisoned in Britain last month with her father, a Russian former double-agent, saying she was getting stronger by the day but shedding no new light on the incident.
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To the east, Russia's brazen violation of international norms has only increased despite broad economic sanctions — witness the chemical assault on a double agent in Britain, while to the west, the Trump administration relentlessly pursues its chaotic assault on American values and traditions.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday it was "highly likely" that Moscow was responsible for the poisoning in the English city of Salisbury of a Russian former double agent with Novichok, one of the deadliest chemical weapons ever developed.
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The relationship between Berlin and Moscow has been further strained since last month when Germany joined the United States and other European countries in standing with Britain in a standoff over the attack on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter.
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Macron is due to attend the Saint Petersbourg economic forum in May, even though diplomatic links between Russia and the West have hit a low in the wake of a chemicals weapon attack in March on former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain on Tuesday warned that it would review its participation in the World Cup, due to take place in Russia in June, if Moscow was shown to be behind the mystery illness which struck down a former Russian double agent.
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LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May agreed on Tuesday that Russia must provide "unambiguous answers" after London gave Moscow until midnight to explain how a Soviet-era nerve weapon was used against a former Russian double agent.
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PRINCETON, N.J. (Reuters) - A Russian chemist who helped develop the Soviet-era nerve agent used to poison a former Russian double agent in southern England said only the Russian government could have carried out the attack with such a deadly and advanced toxin.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - There is no clear proof that Russia is linked to an attack involving a nerve agent against a former Russian double agent in England, the Kremlin spokesman said on Friday, commenting on U.S. President Donald Trump's suggestion that there was.
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Usually I'd say that's not exactly fair, but watching the Allied trailer, it's hard to deny the resemblance between this movie — in which Brad Pitt's character is assigned to take out his wife, a possible double agent spy — and Mr. and Mrs.
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The number of England fans in Russia has been low amid diplomatic tension over the poisoning of a Russian former double-agent and his daughter, and now the death of a woman who police say was poisoned with the same nerve agent.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson welcomed Russia's defeat on Wednesday in its attempt to get the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to back a joint investigation into the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in Britain.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British counter-terrorism police were on Tuesday investigating the unexplained death of a Russian associate of late tycoon Boris Berezovsky but said the death was not thought to be linked to a nerve agent attack on a former Russian double agent.
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The post points out how odd it is that a potions master wouldn't have an antidote to snake venom, especially since Snape had to have known that as a double-agent he was highly likely to, at some point, suffer Nagini's wrath.
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Trump, speaking to reporters at the White House, acknowledged that British authorities have accused Russia in the attack on the former Russian double agent who passed secrets to British intelligence, but said he still needed to talk to May before rendering a judgment.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The daughter of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal is getting better after spending three weeks in critical condition due to a nerve toxin attack at his home in England, the hospital where she is being treated said on Thursday.
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" Here's another thought, from a teen entrepreneur: "As somebody running a magazine, I have to be a bit of a double agent, speaking Gen Z but also corporation (speak) because we need money to run things, so we have to milk the cow.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders agreed on Friday to recall the bloc's envoy to Moscow for consultations, in a symbolic step as the Union backed Britain in blaming Russia for the nerve attack on a former Russian double agent, three diplomats said.
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Because elements of Israel's security apparatus felt sure that "the Angel" was a double agent sent from Cairo to peddle disinformation, and many continued to believe that President Sadat would never attack until Egypt was able to close its military gap with Israel.
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PARIS, March 14 (Reuters) - French government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux on Tuesday said it was too early for Paris to decide on a response to the poisoning of a former double agent on British soil after London accused Russia of being behind the attack.
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Despite an unusual advertising blitz that saw adverts promoting Prince Mohammed and Saudi Arabia appear in national newspapers and on taxis and electronic billboards across London, the visit was knocked from the British front pages by the poisoning of a Russian double agent.
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He knew that Jojoy, a diabetic, suffered from swollen feet, and when intelligence services learned that a pair of custom boots was being made for him they arranged through a double agent to have a U.S.-supplied microchip inserted into the sole.
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A week later, on the 12th of March, UK Prime Minister Theresa May confirmed what had already begun circulating in British media: intelligence suggested that Skripal, a former Russian spy and double agent for UK intelligence services, had likely been poisoned by Russia.
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But Moscow has threatened to take retaliatory action after the United States and other Western countries expelled more than 83 Russian diplomats over the poisoning of Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in England with a military-grade nerve toxin.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Following are diplomatic measures announced against Russia by the United States, Canada, Australia, several EU countries and Ukraine in response to the poisoning of a former Russian double agent with military-grade nerve agent in the English town of Salisbury.
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LONDON, March 14 (Reuters) - Russian dollar-denominated bonds came under pressure and yield premia widened on Wednesday after Prime Minister Theresa May said Britain would retaliate against Moscow in response to a nerve toxin attack on a former double agent in southern England.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States shares Britain's assessment that Russia was responsible for a nerve agent attack in Britain against a former Russian double agent and supports Britain's decision to expel Russian diplomats, the White House said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Nerve agent mystery British investigators have descended upon a small English town to find out how two seemingly random individuals were exposed to the same Soviet-era nerve agent that nearly killed a former Russian double agent and his daughter earlier this year.
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Mr. Skripal, a former Russian double agent who was released to Britain in 2010, appears to have been poisoned with a Russian-made nerve agent while eating with his daughter at an Italian restaurant in the town of Salisbury in southern England.
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The Daily Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: Via Apple Podcasts | Via RadioPublic | Via Stitcher Eight years ago, the United States and Russia agreed to a spy swap that sent a Russian double agent to safety in Britain.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Any move by Britain to cut its gas imports from Russia would be "politically motivated", the Russian energy minister said on Thursday, amid a worsening rift between Moscow and London over the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in England.
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Sometimes the assassination attempts leave a mystery in their wake, as in the case of the Russian double agent Sergei V. Skripal and his daughter, Yulia Skripal, who were poisoned by a military-grade nerve agent called Novichok in Salisbury, England, this month.
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In the interview, Mr. Rogozin said Russia wanted to carry on joint flights with the United States and its allies, despite the tensions over election interference, wars in Syria and Ukraine, and the chemical weapons poisoning of a former double agent in Britain.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Russia is expelling a Swedish diplomat in a tit-for-tat move after the Nordic country expelled a Russian diplomat after the poisoning of a former Russian double agent and his daughter in Britain, the Swedish Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
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After initially equivocating about a chemical attack on a former Russian double agent in Salisbury, England, the White House joined a statement by the leaders of Britain, France and Germany in which they said they "abhor the attack" and blamed it on Moscow.
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Mr. Philby, a notorious double-agent who defected to Moscow in 22014 and died there in 1988, was recently honored with a portrait in a Russian state art gallery and is celebrated in a soon-to-be broadcast film on state television.
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Mr. Skripal, a Russian former double agent, and his daughter collapsed on a bench in Salisbury, a city in southern England, several hours after they were exposed to novichok, a nerve agent that Soviet scientists developed for battlefield use against Western troops.
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I knew enough of the basics, like what Hogwarts and Muggles are, that Severus Snape had long been a double agent of sorts, and that Lord Voldemort is the noseless embodiment of evil and must be defeated at all cost, or else.
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He has urged dialogue with Russia over Syria and France has been vocal about Russian meddling in the French elections, ongoing illegal activities in Ukraine, and the poisoning in the United Kingdom of the former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow expects Britain, the United States and their partners to soon take new steps against Russia related to the poisoning in Britain of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal, news agency RIA quoted a senior Russian diplomat as saying on Friday.
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As the UK rallies its allies (or what remains of them) to take a stand against Moscow's provocation in the attempted murder of a former Russian double agent and his daughter on British soil, we are once again at a pivotal moment.
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The double agent, whom the government refers to in the complaint as 'the Source' and whose affiliation and identity aren't disclosed, allegedly provided MSS intelligence officers with classified information at the direction of the U.S. government, including through Mr. Peng, it says.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May earlier on Wednesday announced that Britain was expelling 23 Russian diplomats because it had received no explanation for the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, a Russian former double agent, and his daughter with a Soviet-made nerve toxin.
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While the country recently joined with other global powers in condemning an attack on a former Russian double agent who was poisoned, along with his daughter, in the U.K. at the start of March, it has also tried to keep the peace diplomatically.
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Numbers have also seemingly been kept down by diplomatic tensions over the poisoning of a Russian former double-agent and his daughter in Salisbury in March, and now the death of a woman who police say was poisoned with the same nerve agent.
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The sweeping punishments are the United States' first direct retaliation against Russia for the nerve-agent attack on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, who fell critically ill after the incident earlier this month in the English city of Salisbury.
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Shortly after the arrest of Aldrich H. Ames, a career C.I.A. officer who turned out to be a double agent, United States officials expelled a senior Russian diplomat, Aleksandr Lyskenko, whom they called a top officer of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service.
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LONDON, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Britain will introduce a new law on espionage to counter the threat from potentially 'hostile' states such as Russia and China after the 2018 chemical attack on a former Russian double agent that London blamed on Russian military intelligence.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Britain's response to the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal on its soil, using a nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union, could hit members of the Russian elite hard if it closes the door on their London lifestyles.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A conservative ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday that if Russia fails to cooperate in the investigation into a nerve agent attack on a former Russian double agent in Britain, there should be a joint Western response.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin still favors mending ties with other countries, despite a decision to expel scores of Western diplomats in a row over the poisoning of a former Russian double agent and his daughter in Britain, a Kremlin spokesman said.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday that attempts to blame it for the mysterious illness that has struck down a Russian former double agent in Britain were wrong and looked like part of a campaign to damage relations between London and Moscow.
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Having survived an assassination attempt with a Cold War nerve agent, Yulia Skripal, daughter of the former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal, found herself at the center of a surreal diplomatic spat Wednesday, with the Russian embassy insinuating Britain had effectively kidnapped her.
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The Kremlin shrugged off on Thursday a fresh demand from Britain that it provide details about the Novichok nerve agent attack on a former double agent and his daughter in March after two British citizens were struck down this week with the same poison.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The Western NATO military alliance called on Russia on Wednesday to give Britain "complete disclosure" of the Soviet-era nerve agent used in an attack on a Russian double agent on March 4, following a British briefing to allies at NATO headquarters.
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MOSCOW, March 13 (Reuters) - Britain's response to the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal on its soil, using a nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union, could hit members of the Russian elite hard if it closes the door on their London lifestyles.
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The award comes a little over a year after a former Russian double agent and his daughter were found slumped on a bench, triggering a sequence of events which ended with one person dead and the West's relations with Russia in the diplomatic deep-freeze.
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Salvini was also critical of the previous government's decision to expel two Russian diplomats from Italy as part of a coordinated European response to the use of a nerve agent in Salisbury that left a Russian double agent and his daughter in critical condition.
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The organization claims to have a partnership with the Russian state media outlet Sputnik and consistently pushes pro-Kremlin propaganda, on anything from the downing of Flight MH17 to the poisoning of Russian double agent Sergei Skripal, which it described as a "false flag" operation.
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MOSCOW, March 15 (Reuters) - Russia's energy minister said on Thursday he "heard" that Britain was considering a reduction in gas imports from Russia as part of measures it is taking after blaming Moscow for the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in England.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May, who has squarely blamed Moscow for the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter with a military-grade nerve agent, confirmed to parliament on Wednesday that Britain was looking to countries other than Russia to supply gas.
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BRUSSELS, March 23 (Reuters) - European Union leaders agreed on Friday to recall the bloc's envoy to Moscow for consultations, in a symbolic step as the Union backed Britain in blaming Russia for the nerve attack on a former Russian double agent, three diplomats said.
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Police said the officer received medical treatment and returned to duties shortly after they responded to the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, a former Russian double agent and his daughter who were found slumped on a bench in the southern English city of Salisbury.
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Hansen repeatedly offered to be a double agent for the U.S. against China and sought access to national defense information in 2012 by trying to gain employment with the DIA, U.S. Army Intelligence, and with a lawmaker on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is to kick out 23 Russian diplomats, the biggest such expulsion since the Cold War, over a chemical attack on a former Russian double agent in England that Prime Minister Theresa May blamed on Moscow, an assessment backed by the United States.
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Back when Jennifer Garner played a double agent on "Alias," she assumed a very different role in this comedy as the cheerful and naïve Jenna Rink, a 13-year-old who wishes herself into the future and wakes up in her 30-year-old body.
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LONDON — Kim Philby, the double agent whose betrayal of his country to the Soviet Union still marks British life, boasted in a 1981 lecture that was recently discovered by the BBC and broadcast on Monday of the ease with which he fooled a complacent establishment.
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Xuehua "Edward" Peng was caught acting as a courier for China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) after the U.S. launched a "double agent operation" in March 2015, according to a criminal complaint filed in the Northern District of California and obtained by NBC News.
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The back-and-forth between Russia and the U.K. comes as British officials ratchet up pressure on Moscow over what they allege was a Russian government attempt to kill former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, using a military-grade nerve agent.
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The announcement comes one week after the U.S. expelled 85033 Russian diplomats accused of being spies and shuttered the Russian consulate in Seattle, part of an international effort to punish the Kremlin for the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in Great Britain.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Wednesday the United States believes Russia is responsible for a chemical attack in Britain on a former Russia double agent and his daughter, and the U.N. Security Council should take action.
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BERLIN, April 4 (Reuters) - The German government still agrees with Britain that Russia is probably responsible for the poisoning of a former double agent after the head of Britain's military research centre said he could not say whether the nerve agent had been made in Russia.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's media regulator said it was considering Prime Minister Theresa May's statement on the poisoning of a Russian double agent before deciding whether the state-funded Russia Today (RT) should face an investigation that could lead to the revocation of its UK broadcasting licenses.
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After British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday it was "highly likely" that Moscow was responsible for the poisoning in England of Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders pointedly declined during a news briefing to blame Russia for the incident.
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As it stands right now, the plot feels all-too-easy to predict: Rick will corner the Saviors by capitalizing on Dwight's double-agent status and Simon's betrayal, only to let Negan live so as to abide by Carl's dying wish to find peace and forgiveness.
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That often puts HR workers in a bind, and Hervey has seen a pattern across "hundreds and hundreds" of interviews where an HR worker will become a temporary "double agent" — helping an employee navigate a situation in an off-the-record fashion outside of company policy.
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However, in a strange case of Cold War-era espionage, Graham Mitchell, deputy director of MI5, the UK's intelligence bureau, was suspected of being a double agent for the Soviets, and a handful of correspondence chess games played a peculiar, albeit tenuous role in the drama.
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But all Welles can do is open another portal, this time into the life of the book's protagonist, the displaced Cypriot and possible double agent Vettor Crivano, as he moves around Venice in 1592 trying to bring to fruition a complex plot involving mirror-makers and alchemists.
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MOSCOW, March 13 (Reuters) - Russia will not allow any British media outlets to operate on its territory if Russian broadcaster RT loses its UK licence, a Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman said on Tuesday, amid a row over the poisoning of an ex-Russian double agent in England.
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Among his less successful trials as a senior barrister was his defense of George Blake, unmasked in 1961 as a double agent who had used his position at Britain's foreign intelligence service, MI6, to aid the Soviet K.G.B. in the earliest days of the Cold War.
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LONDON — A week after a retired Russian double agent and his daughter were poisoned by a nerve agent in the small city of Salisbury, the British authorities on Sunday asked anyone who was near the former spy, Sergei V. Skripal, that day to wash their clothes.
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Their presence loomed over Season 1, but now it seems likely they'll take front and center — I'm girding myself for double-agent and triple-agent secret infiltration stories that are rarely as interesting as two characters just telling the truth and seeing where that takes them.
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In the latest broadside, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday it would impose fresh sanctions by the month's end after determining that Moscow had used a nerve agent against a former Russian double agent, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter, Yulia, in Britain, something Moscow denies.
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Hiding in plain sight -- chemical weapons are not off limits: A tit-for-tat between Russia and the United Kingdom will likely continue this week after Theresa May's response to Russia's alleged use of a nerve agent against a former Russian double agent and his daughter.
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The Novichok agents, suspected of being used in the attempted poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, for example, are estimated to be between eight and 10 times more potent than VX, one of the most toxic of the traditional nerve agents.
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Peng is alleged to have couriered thousands of dollars of cash through a series of dead drops to a double agent working for the US, and to have picked up classified information provided by the agent and delivered it to China, according to a court-filed affidavit.
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The reorganization comes as relations between Russia and Britain, where Gazprom has the largest trading office by far, have hit a new low after Prime Minister Theresa May said Moscow was to blame for the attempted murder a former Russian double agent in an English city.
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Despite tensions over Britain's decision to quit the bloc next year, EU leaders, top officials and NATO reacted in quick succession after British Prime Minister Theresa May's speech in the British parliament on Monday on the poisoning of a former Russian double agent, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump agreed with British Prime Minister Theresa May that Russia must provide "unambiguous answers" about how a Russian-developed chemical agent came to be used against a Russian double agent in Britain, the White House said on Tuesday after the two leaders spoke.
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Betrayed by a clever and vile double agent, Abbé Alesch, her network shattered (many of her associates were tortured and sent to death camps), her own cover blown, she escaped from France by crossing the Pyrenees in midwinter on foot, her stump oozing blood as Cuthbert fell apart.
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Mueller has already delivered one of the biggest counterintelligence cases in U.S. history, author Garrett Graff points out — up there with Aldrich Ames (a former CIA officer convicted in 1994 of being a KGB double agent), or Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (executed in 1953 for spying for the Soviets).
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Stan's pursuit of the Jennings leads to the end of his marriage partially because of the affair he starts up with Nina, a source inside the Russian consulate who eventually tried for treason and deported to a Siberian gulag after working as a double agent before flipping back again.
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The idea came from a novel (by Basil Thomson), was identified and written up for the military by a novelist-to-be (a young naval intelligence officer named Ian Fleming) and was forwarded to an established mystery novelist, John Masterman, who was in charge of Britain's double-agent operations.
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Naryshkin's comments come as the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the world's chemical weapons watchdog, holds a meeting at Russia's request to discuss Britain's allegations that Moscow was behind the poisoning of a former Russian double agent and his daughter with a military-grade nerve agent.
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Dutch officials, meanwhile, revealed a Russian attempt in April to hack into the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in the Netherlands, which at the time was investigating the nerve agent used in the attempted assassination by the GRU of a GRU double agent in Britain, Sergei Skripal.
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The crisis over the March 19703 poisoning of a former Russian double agent and his daughter has driven tensions between the Kremlin and the West to their highest pitch in decades and forced European countries like Germany that are usually wary of clashing with Moscow to choose sides.
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TODAY'S NUMBER 21 The number of people in the UK needing medical attention after the nerve agent attack on former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal HAPPENING LATER Jobs report When the February jobs report comes out this morning, look at more than just the job numbers and unemployment rate.
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The closure of the Russian consulate and the expulsion of 60 Russians from the United States comes on the heels of a nerve agent attack earlier this month on Sergei Skripal, a former Russian double agent who worked for the U.K.'s secret service, and his daughter, Yulia.
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The Justice Department released FBI surveillance video they say is of Peng leaving an envelope with $20,000 in a Georgia hotel room for the source and then returning two hours later to the same room and picking up an SD card with information left by the double agent.
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News on Sunday that a British woman had died from apparent exposure to the same nerve agent used in the suspected attempted assassination of a former Russian double agent in the English town of Salisbury is a reminder of just how unorthodox some of those new threats can be.
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Managing tensions with Moscow Officials acknowledge that relations between Russia and the West have sunk to their lowest point in decades, punctuated by both sides expelling scores of diplomats over the poisoning of a former double agent in the U.K. last month that Western nations have blamed on Russia.
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After Russian military intelligence poisoned former British-Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the U.K. in 2018, Russian state-controlled news agencies promoted conspiracy theories about alternate culprits, including the U.S., the British government, a drone and even Yulia Skripal's future mother-in-law.
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That mission gets quite messy before H and M are thrown into a zippy romp trying to figure out who's trying to assassinate whom and whether someone at MIB is a double agent member of the Hive, a villainous alien force with plans to take over the world.
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Novichok, which the Soviets developed in the 1970s and 1980s as a next-generation nerve agent deadlier than others like VX or sarin, was the chemical authorities identified as the substance behind the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal, his daugher Yulia, and a police officer in Salisbury in March.
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On Monday's edition of Fox News' Ingraham Angle, host Laura Ingraham and former George W. Bush-era Deputy Assistant US Attorney General John Yoo teamed up to demean Vindman as some sort of Ukrainian double agent, citing the fact he was born there before moving to the US as a child.
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Prime Minister Theresa May blamed Russia for this month's attack on a Russian double-agent and his daughter - the first known offensive use of a nerve toxin in Europe since World War Two - and gave 23 Russians whom she said were spies working under diplomatic cover one week to leave London.
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Prime Minister Theresa May blamed Russia for the attack on a Russian double agent and his daughter - the first known offensive use of a nerve toxin in Europe since World War Two - and gave 23 Russians whom she said were spies working under diplomatic cover one week to leave London.
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" British Prime Minister Theresa May, who reacted with fury to the poisoning of a former Russian double agent and his daughter in the English city of Salisbury in March, pointedly said during the NATO summit that it was important for allies "to raise the cost of malign behavior whenever it occurs.
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In March, the United States closed the Russian Consulate General in Seattle and expelled 60 diplomats in response to Moscow's alleged involvement in the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the UK. Moscow shut down the U.S. Consulate General in St. Petersburg after that.
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U.K. counter-terror police have taken over the investigation into how former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia became critically ill after exposure to a suspected toxic substance, with the government warning on Tuesday of "harsh consequences" if any state, including Russia, is found to be involved.
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Unlike many other Western nations, it did not expel diplomats in the wake of the poisoning of a former Soviet double agent, Sergei V. Skripal, and his daughter, in England in March, an attack that was widely attributed to Russia, and in 2015 the government denounced European Union sanctions over Ukraine.
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"Our lack of action has consequences," Haley said in her remarks Wednesday, linking the lack of concerted action in Syria to separate chemical weapons attacks in the United Kingdom and Malaysia, which targeted a former Russian double agent and the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un respectively.
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In the most sweeping action of its kind against Moscow since the height of the Cold War, the United States and European Union member states plan to expel scores of Russian diplomats to punish the Kremlin for a nerve agent attack on a former double agent and his daughter in England.
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Following the announcement, Prime Minister Theresa May reiterated the U.K.'s allegation that the Russian state had orchestrated the attack on the former Russian spy, who had become a double-agent for the U.K.'s intelligence services in the 1990s and early 2000s — a factor seen as motivation for the attack.
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He has also written extensively against gay rights and questioned the Kremlin's involvement in the poisoning of Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in Salisbury in the UK. "It's too obvious for me," he said of the evidence in the Skripal case during an interview published in the New York Times last week.
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A day after UN envoy Nikki Haley delivered a tongue lashing to Russia in the Security Council, the administration signed up to a statement alongside Britain, France and Germany, castigating Russia over the attempted murder of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the sleepy English cathedral town of Salisbury.
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"On so many of the world's foreign policy challenges the UK and U.S. are in lockstep," Johnson said in a statement, citing the poisoning in Britain of Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal, and opposition to the use of chemical weapons in Syria and to the development of nuclear weapons in North Korea.
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Photo: Frank Augstein (AP)Neil Basu, Britain's top counter-terrorism official, announced on Wednesday evening that a couple poisoned in the county of Wiltshire appear to have been exposed to Novichok, the Soviet-era nerve agent behind the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury earlier this year.
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Two operatives using the pseudonyms Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov traveled from a budget hotel in East London on the morning of Sunday, March 4, to the scenic town of Salisbury, approached the doorway of Sergei Skripal — a Russian former double agent — and sprayed the contents of the perfume bottle on the door handle.
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The job is this: in the morning, Gunther will board a train to London, where he will receive a vial of the heavy metal thallium, and use it to poison a double agent who, in fact, had once betrayed Gunther with so little remorse that he would happily see her killed—but not by him.
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In the past few years, Hollywood has examined his story in a series of films: " Escobar: Paradise Lost " (Benicio Del Toro; innocent surfer drawn into drug web), " The Infiltrator " (Bryan Cranston; double agent), "Loving Pablo" (Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem; clandestine romance with kingpin), and " American Made " (Tom Cruise; pilot turns Escobar crony turns informant).
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Recent use includes the assassination with VX of Kim Jong Nam, half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in Kuala Lumpur airport in February 2017 and the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal, a 66-year-old former Russian double agent, and his daughter with a Novichok nerve agent in March in England.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump could decide as soon as Monday whether to take the National Security Council's recommendation to expel a group of Russian diplomats from the US in response to the poisonings of a former Russian double agent and his daughter in England, a source with knowledge of the situation told CNN.
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Early news reports suggest Tillerson doesn't know why he was fired, today of all days, and it comes a day after he directly called out Russia for its suspected involvement, announced as "highly likely" by British Prime Minister Theresa May, in the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal with a nerve agent.
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As evidence of this toughness, the president often points to sanctions on Russian oligarchs that he signed into law in August 2017, and to the expulsion of 60 Russian diplomats from the United States in March 2018, in response to the nearly fatal nerve agent attack on a Russian former double agent in Britain.
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Natasha Bertrand, national security correspondent: One of the most striking episodes, in my opinion, was when some of Trump's allies began accusing Vindman of being some kind of double agent, citing his birthplace — the former Soviet Union — and the conversations he had with Ukrainian officials about how to handle Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
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Both the U.S. and EU have imposed sanctions on Russia for its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, role in a pro-Russian uprising in east Ukraine, and for U.S. election interference and the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal with a nerve agent in the U.K. Ukraine continues to be a source of tension and turbulence.
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Photo: Getty ImagesAccording to the BBC, Russian ambassador to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov now says that the nerve agent used in the poisoning of 66-year-old former Russian spy-turned-double-agent Sergei Skripal and his 33-year-old daughter Yulia Skripal in the city of Salisbury, England may have actually came from a nearby British lab.
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You only find out so much about what is really going on in Charlie's world and in agent Kurtz's world in the first episode, with much of it hanging on the fact that we will, eventually, discover how they plan to plant this no-nonsense pub performer in a Palestinian terror cell as a double agent.
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Indeed, in all likelihood, Cruz believes he has enough "double agent delegates" among the Trump ranks of delegates (see Sasha Issenberg's must-read on the road ahead) to win without Kasich's help on the first ballot (or at least enough who will bolt to him on the second ballot if he remains at arms-length from Kasich).
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Mr. Hutchinson defended Penguin Books for publishing D. H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover"; represented the model Christine Keeler in the so-called Profumo Affair, which combined sex, spies and scandal; and sought unsuccessfully to avert a 42-year jail term for George Blake, a Soviet double agent who later escaped from a British prison and fled to Moscow.
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The announcements came a day after the British authorities said that Ms. Skripal and her father, a former colonel for Russian military intelligence who was widely believed to have been a double agent, had been poisoned after the nerve agent was applied to the front door of their house, resolving one of the many mysteries in the case.
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While Mr Putin says Crimea has always been part of Russia, his actions in Ukraine are seen as part of a growing charge sheet that includes US election meddling, military intervention to back the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, and the nerve agent attack on a former Russian double agent in the British cathedral city of Salisbury.
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Russia is still subject to economic sanctions for its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, as well as interference in the 2016 U.S. election and the nerve agent poisoning of a former double agent in the U.K. With that in mind, it makes sense that Russia is seeking an economic — and geopolitical — partner and ally to the East.
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Watch: We spoke to the Russian scientist who helped create the toxin that poisoned a spy in Britain Cover image: Police officers in protective suits and masks work near the scene where former double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia were discovered after being attacked with a nerve-agent on March 16, 2018 in Salisbury, England.
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Read moreMeet Alexander Vindman: The refugee, Army colonel, and Purple Heart recipient testifying about his concerns over Trump's Ukraine dealingsCalling top Trump national-security aide 'double agent' is 'reprehensible,' former Army general saysConservative commentators are questioning the loyalty of a NSC official and Iraq veteran set to testify in the impeachment inquiryHouse Democrats just gave Republicans everything they wanted in the impeachment inquiry
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The reason for the diplomatic expulsions was the poisoning of a former Russian double agent living in the UK. Even as Sergei Skripal -- and his daughter, Yulia, who also was poisoned -- lay in the hospital, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova mocked the UK's report to the House of Commons on the attack: "It's a circus show in the British Parliament," Zakharova snapped.
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"I was never informed of the contents of these devices and at no time learned what information was stored on them," he said, according to the AP. The information Peng provided is not thought to be a threat to the U.S., as it was reportedly provided to him through a double agent who had alerted the FBI to the scheme.
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In fact, he said that the K.G.B. had been so alarmed after the Kennedy assassination that it searched its own files and could not find any evidence that Mr. Oswald had ever worked for the K.G.B. But C.I.A. officials, led by the counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton, were convinced that Mr. Nosenko was a double agent sent by Moscow to muddy the waters.
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His opening statement — in which he testified that he raised alarms internally about efforts to pressure Ukraine into launching political investigations in exchange for military assistance aid — made him an immediate target of Trump's allies, who began floating a conspiracy theory late Monday night that Vindman was working as a double agent for both the Ukrainians and the United States.
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It obviously starts with the cops as killers thing, which we've seen a lot recently with the murders of Eric Garner, Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Freddie Gray, but I imagine that when you were growing up you saw a lot of antipathy between police and black people…I said this in another interview, but for many years I felt like a double agent of sorts.
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Not only has Athens always been careful in its dealings with Moscow, but this sudden rupture was executed by what is considered to be the most pro-Russian government Greece has had — a government that in March refused to join its Western allies in expelling Russian diplomats in retaliation for Moscow's alleged involvement in the poisoning of a former Russian double agent and his daughter in Britain.
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The federal agents attempted to convince AIM leaders that Aquash was working as a double agent for the U.S. This resulted in three lower-level AIM members—John Graham, Arlo Looking Cloud, and Theda Clarke, who have all since been convicted—driving her off the reservation, executing her via a gunshot to the back of the head, and dumping her body in the ditch.
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Russia has been linked to a coup attempt in Montenegro (the Balkan nation had dared to consider joining NATO); an old-school spy case involving purloined NATO documents and an accused Portuguese double agent; a viral fake news story about a 13-year-old girl in Germany supposedly raped by Muslims, and a caper by suspected Russian hackers who briefly seized control of an entire television network in France.
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Read more: China used a massive military parade to unveil a supersonic, nuclear-capable missile which could get round the US missile defense systemThe feds allege he and his handler used 'sightseeing' as a codewordIn one incident, the double agent emailed his handler saying he would be traveling to San Francisco for sightseeing, a code prosecutors said meant he was conducting a dead drop at a hotel in Newark, California.
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