Real-life Espionage Incidents Discussion

[Byatil]

Did anyone see this story? It was in the news again recently, and it totally reminded me of Spooks: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/ne...179684.stm

The BBC Wrote:In an exclusive interview with BBC Newsnight, Lieutenant-Colonel Oleg Silchenko, a senior Russian policeman accused of involvement in the mysterious death in jail of prominent Russian whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky, has spoken about the claims for the first time.

Lt Col Silchenko denied inflicting suffering amounting to torture on the jailed lawyer, who was being held on tax evasion charges when he died in unexplained circumstances in Moscow's Matrosskaya Tishina detention centre one year ago, and hit back at his accusers.
"What happened was a big misfortune for Magnitsky's relatives, but the job of the investigation was to investigate, not to put pressure on him. We had enough proof of his guilt," Lt Col Silchenko, one of Russia's most elite investigators, told Newsnight.
"The attempt to accuse law enforcement agencies of involvement in this crime is absurd," he added.