Novichok Attack: Apollo... the agent groomed by MI6
THE RUSSIAN military agents who tried to murder Sergei and Yulia Skripal were identified thanks to a recently-turned Russian spy, according to intelligence sources. Codenamed Apollo, he was recruited in a spectacular coup by Britain's Secret Intelligence Service in Rome, weeks after the Novichok nerve-agent attacks in Salisbury.
Although he had a position in Russia's embassy there, his real job was to glean classified information about Nato.
Sources say he had been groomed for months by an MI6 agent posing as an art dealer, after expressing a desire to defect over his belief that Russian president Vladimir Putin is determined to foster conflict with the West.
Last night a recently retired MI6 agent revealed Apollo was brought to Britain in early April and debriefed.
He provided Secret Intelligence Service officers with a "wide spectrum of routine and sensitive information" about Moscow's worldwide spy network.
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