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Charges against David Ballantyne Smith include collecting information that could “be useful' to Russia.

LONDON — A former British security guard has pleaded guilty to spying for Russia when he worked at the British Embassy in Berlin, including giving a Russian military attaché details of the identities and phone numbers of British civil servants.

The charges also involved collecting video recordings of CCTV footage and unauthorized photocopies of documents, as well as information on the layout of the British embassy, that was calculated to be “useful to an enemy, namely the Russian state,” according to the indictment. It said the offenses were committed between October 2020 and August 2021.

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