LONDON. Books on Nazism and “sympathy for the far right”, Russian flags scattered around the house, the novels of John Le Carré. David Smith, a contractor employee of the British embassy in Germany, was arrested yesterday in Berlin on charges of being a spy in the pay of Moscow. For now he remains officially a suspect, and in prison. But certainly what was found in his home in the German capital, formerly known as the “spy capital” during the Cold War, certainly does not prove in his favor .
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by our correspondent Antonello Guerrera
Neighbors defend this 57-year-old man, short, stocky and bald, accused by investigators in London and Berlin of having passed secret documents to Russian intelligence: “An exquisite person, always greeted, really kind”. Yet the objects found in the home of Smith, a British citizen who has lived in Berlin for many years, at least denote an ideological closeness to Moscow.
How they rebuilt the Sun and the German picture, Smith had everywhere, even in the living room, next to the playstation and on the coffee cups, flags of Russia, which would have approached him at least in 2020. In the bookstore, however, a large literature on the Soviet Union and Stalin. Indeed, in the living room, the plush of a dog was found with the cap of the Red Army of the USSR on his head.
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Not only. Smith also had many books on Nazism and Hitler on the shelves. According to sources of the investigators of the two tabloids, the man has “clear ideas of the far right”, as well as apparently being a conspiracy theorist: in his library there are also works by David Icke, author over the years of various books steeped in conspiracy theories, like those of 11 September which he branded as a “inside job”Of the Americans. And finally, the novels of John Le Carré, which he had set in Berlin The spy who came in from the cold. But Smith seems to particularly like it A crime of class, also with Smiley in the plot, the extraordinary of Le Carré.
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