Circling the Lion's Den

English - Estonian spy

On March 15, FSB informed that in Moscow at 7 p.m. at Leningrad railway station there was arrested a recruited in Tallinn Russian citizen who had been suspected in spying in favor of Great Britain. The arrested person was placed at Lefortovo.

"A Muscovite, not long ago a former high officer of KGB during 1999 made several business trips to Estonia, - said the statement of COS by FSB. - At that time he was recruited by Pablo Miller a chief of British intelligence in Tallinn who acted under the cover of first secretary by Great Britain embassy in Tallinn". Russian authorities accused the arrested person in high treason.

By the English and Russian press data the name of captured British -Estonian spy must be - a Muscovite - published at so-called list of Tomlinson disclosed the names of British agents.

Last year the former officer by MI-6 department by British intelligence Richard Tomlinson published the list of names of foreign British agents. It must be that on the basis of this list there was found the Russian citizen working at Great Britain and Estonia.

Tomlinson’s information disclosed a mechanism of British intelligence system in many countries. The first victim became a Russian citizen captured by FSB, writes "Izvestiya" newspaper. There is not the name of Pablo Miller who recruited the spy in this list. By ORT information the captures served at Russian external intelligence earlier.

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Resources:

  • Baltic News Service 24.03.2000 "Russian intelligence named the hooker of British-Estonian spy"
  • Segodnya 16.03.2000 "FSB found an English spy among the Estonian agents"
  • Baltic News Service 17.03.2000 "Estonia is a better partners of British  agents - The Times"
  • Komsomolskaya Pravda 25.03.2000 "English spy’s marrowbones shook on the step of "Lefortovo"