Plans of Bulgarian spy ring were ‘all talk’

An espionage plot to spray an embassy building with 100 litres of blood was just ‘fanciful’ talk, a court heard. Three Bulgarians are accused of spying for the Russians with plots to kidnap dissidents, steal a journalist’s computers and stage fake demonstrations. One operation suggested by accused masterspy Orlin Roussev, 46, was to douse the Kazakhstan embassy in London with blood. Roussev told Russian agent Jan Marsalek that ‘collection was underway’ but defence barristers are claiming there is no evidence…