Russian Spy Master Helped Expose Spy Ring in U.S. -- ABC News
Report Quotes Kremlin Official Promising Revenge for Betrayal.
A colonel in Russia's SVR, the foreign intelligence service, helped the United States expose the spy ring that was part of July's spy swap, the biggest since the Cold War, according to a leading Russian newspaper.
The long-time SVR officer, a Col. Shcherbakov, was head of the U.S. section in charge of planting moles in the United States, Kommersant reported.
He fled to the United States three days before President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to Washington in June.
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