Poisoned on March 4 in the United Kingdom, Sergei Skripal was not honored in the system of the Main Intelligence Directorate, since he could easily surrender his comrades. Data for the British intelligence services spied out in the process of intimate conversations with colleagues, including during the feast. And skip a glass of hot in a warm company, Skripal was not averse. This was told to Rosbalt by a Russian ex-scout who asked not to disclose his name. "He is a cheerful fellow, sociable and curious. Actively participated in the drinking with alcohol, during which he interrogated the "profile" employees about the information necessary for the British ", - the interlocutor of the agency. However, since Skripal always poked his nose into all matters and loved to gossip, his excessive curiosity did not surprise or arouse any apprehension.

Cooperation with overseas agents in the case of the ex-colonel is a gradual process and is simple to trivial. In it, as it is easy to guess, a financial question is involved. "He needed money, he first copied the list of employees of the central apparatus of the GRU and sold it to British intelligence, with whom he maintained relations after a trip to Spain. Money is over. Then he copied the list in general of all GRU system soldiers. Again sold. Then he began to try to offer all the information he had access to, "- said his colleague Skripal, specifying that he was trying to" tie "," but the British have already tightened it "hooked" - and money, and it was than blackmail ".

There is information that for every meeting he was paid from 5 to 10 thousand dollars. As a result, it came to the point that Skripal began to receive specific tasks, turning into a spy. After leaving the GRU and becoming an employee of the Foreign Ministry, he continued his agency work. Interest in classified information was explained by the benefit to the foreign policy department or the conduct of a successful business. "He continued to participate in celebrations, celebrations on the occasion of birthdays and t. Yes, and I often communicated with former colleagues. And he also asked about topics that, as it turned out, interested British intelligence, "the Rosbalt interlocutor said, adding that Skripal usually received what he wanted. As a result - the broken careers and fates of colleagues, who expelled the ex-colonel. In 2006, the spy received 13 years in prison, after 4 years, President Medvedev pardoned him, exchanging among other traitors for agents of Russian special services detained in the US.

Now the so-called "business of Skripal" - one of the hottest in the foreign policy arena. In an international scandal, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany and France intervened. They accused the Kremlin of poisoning the ex-spy and his daughter Yuli, who are still in a coma. At the same time, the "NATO Four" did not provide any evidence, which Moscow quite justifiably refers to, rejecting its involvement in the vague incident, inflated by the same name Albion.