Embassy spy David Smith gets 13 years and two months

An embassy spy who hated Britain so much he put lives at risk by selling secrets to the Russians has been jailed for over 13 years. David Ballantyne Smith, 58, sparked a huge security review after he gathered a mass of classified information for Russia while working as a security guard in the British embassy in Berlin. Capturing the entire embassy on video, he shared ‘secret’ letters between the then Secretary of State for International Trade, Liz Truss and former…