Embassy guard did sell secrets to the Russians

A treacherous embassy spy who hated Britain so much he put lives at risk by selling secrets to the Russians intended to endanger the nation, a court has found. David Ballantyne Smith, 58, gathered a mass of classified information for Russia while working as a security guard in the British embassy in Berlin. He shared ‘secret’ letters between the then Secretary of State for International Trade, Liz Truss and former Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The hard-drinking Scot was unmasked in…