‘I spied for the Russians because I was depressed’

A British Embassy spy put lives at risk when he sold secrets to the Russians, a court heard. Paisley traitor 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 letters between the then Secretary of State for International Trade, Liz Truss and former Prime Minister Boris Johnson that were classified as ‘secret’. The Scot was unmasked in a joint investigation by German police…