A U.K. court sentences a former Berlin embassy worker to 13 years in prison for spying for Russia.
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A British court on Friday sentenced a former security guard at Britain's embassy in Berlin to more than 13 years in prison for spying for Russia.The former guard, David Ballantyne Smith, 58, whose intelligence gathering activities spanned four years, according to the judge in the case, had pleaded guilty to eight charges under Britain's Official Secrets Act, but said that he had been depressed, lonely and drinking heavily at the time.
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