Spy ‘traitor won’t be killed’

THE “swine” who exposed the 10 Russian sleeper spies in the US will not be tracked down and killed, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said yesterday, saying Russia has abandoned the Soviet- era practice of killing turncoats.

Spy ‘traitor won’t be killed’

“Russia’s special services don’t do that,” he said. “As for the traitors, they will croak all by them- selves. Whatever equivalent of 30 pieces of silver they get, it will get stuck in their throats.”

The role of a Russian intelligence officer in exposing the spies was reported last month.

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