Spy sold secrets to Russians for cash

A spy spent years collecting highly sensitive secrets to sell to the Russians for large amounts of cash, the Old Bailey heard. David Ballantyne Smith, 58, gathered a mass of secrets while working as a security guard in the British Embassy in Berlin. The Scot was unmasked in a joint investigation by German police and British security services and arrested at his home in Potsdam in August 2021. Smith was said to be motivated by ‘an extreme hatred of where…