The UK
security services are most likely hiding the Skripals as they do not
want them to reveal any details about their case, former Czech spy
Karel Koecher told RT’s Sophie Shevardnadze.
“[Former
Russian double agent Sergei] Skripal most definitely wasn’t a
victim of any kind of operation or attack from the Russian side,”
said Koecher, who was a Soviet mole who successfully penetrated the
CIA. He went on to say that “as far as Russia is concerned, and
I honestly believe it, they had absolutely no interest in Skripal at
all,” adding that the mere fact that Moscow had previously
agreed to swap him for Russian agents was evidence of that.
Attacking
the former agent after he was swapped would “totally destroy
Russian credibility as far as [spy] exchanges are concerned,”
said the former Czech spy. He then explained that a spy swap is
almost the “only way” to get agents with no diplomatic
cover back in the event that they are caught or arrested. The Russian
authorities would never put this mechanism in any kind of danger
“because they certainly have to get their people back if they
get into trouble.”
The
whole Salisbury incident in which Sergei Skripal and his daughter,
Yulia, were poisoned looks more like a false flag attack, Koecher
told Shevardnadze. The Skripals might just have become a “good
opportunity” for “some kind of scenario of anti-Russian
operations,” he said. “Maybe, it was just made up to have
some kind of reason to escalate the anti-Russian operations and
sanctions in public,” he suggested.
The UK
security services are apparently hiding the former Russian double
agent and his daughter “as much as they can,” Koecher
said, adding that they would probably never let the two meet with
Russian officials because London apparently fears that they could
disclose facts which it does not want to become available to the
public.
“The
whole thing is so suspicious, you know, you cannot know what he
[Sergei Skripal] is going to say,” Koecher said. “So even
if he agrees to say what they [the British intelligence] tell him to
say, he might change his mind when he is speaking on camera,”
the former spy added.
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