The FSB caught a British diplomat in intelligence work against Russia

Edward Pryor, an employee of the British Embassy, the second secretary of the political department of the diplomatic mission Wilkes Edward Pryor conducted intelligence and subversive work threatening the security of Russia. On November 26, the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia announced about the established fact.

It is noted that the British diplomat has been stripped of his accreditation and will be expelled from Russia to his home country. The Russian Foreign Ministry in cooperation with the concerned agencies ordered Pryor to leave Russia within two weeks.

"The FSB of the Russian Federation in the course of counterintelligence work revealed an undeclared intelligence presence of Great Britain under the cover of the national embassy in Moscow," the Public Relations Center (PRC) of the FSB of the Russian Federation said in a statement.

The special services managed to establish that Pryor replaced in the cover position one of the six British intelligence officers expelled from Russia in August this year. When obtaining permission to enter the Russian Federation, the "diplomat" deliberately indicated false data, thus violating Russian law. It is established that Pryor was sent to Moscow through the Eastern Europe and Central Asia Directorate of the British Foreign Office.

"The FSB of Russia will continue to work on countering intelligence-subversive activities of foreign intelligence services by all available methods", - added in the department.

Earlier, on September 13, the FSB press service said that the subversive activities of six diplomats-spies in the British Embassy in Moscow were uncovered and their accreditation was terminated because of the threat to the security of the Russian Federation. The spies were expelled, footage later emerged showing them preparing to leave Russia at the airport.

It was specified that the diplomats were preparing provocations in the country under special instructions. Britain's Foreign Office refused to apologize. The Russian Foreign Ministry said it shared the FSB's position and called on London to abandon its hostile policy on the Russian direction. As retired Russian FSB Major General Alexander Mikhailov noted, the expulsion of six British diplomats from Russia for preparing provocations is a failure that characterizes the entire intelligence service of the United Kingdom.