Sergey from Ecuador

The story of a Russian-illegitimate who worked in Spain: Politico

Western intelligence agencies revealed the history of the Russian illegal agent Sergei Cherepanov. For many years he worked in Spain for foreign intelligence service, posing as a citizen of New Zealand, who was born in Ecuador. Like other illegal immigrants, the former Colonel of the SVR Alexander Poteev probably “passed” him. Medusa retells the text of the Politico publication about the scout, written according to the information provided by European special services.

Lawrence Henry Frit said that he was born in Ecuador in a mixed family. The mother was local, and the father was a citizen of New Zealand, like Frit himself. With his origin, he explained the easy emphasis in Spanish.

In Madrid, Frit worked in a consulting company, which specialized in "socio-economic research". In his life, at first glance, nothing interesting happened: he had work with frequent trips abroad and a girlfriend named Carmen.

Once Frit asked his son Carmen to throw him to the airport. He did so many times; It was only unusual that this trip was almost spontaneous - it was assumed that on this day FET would be in Madrid and would be lucky with Carmen to the doctor who was treated from cancer. But his plans changed dramatically, and he left Spain. As it turned out - forever.

A few months later, Carmen died. When her son saw that Frit had not even arrived at the funeral, he realized that he would never see him again. Almost six years have passed since then, but he still does not know what happened to Fritt and why he left without explaining anything.

In fact, the day before the departure of Frita, an unknown man, came up right on the street. “Excuse me, do you have a couple of minutes to talk? He asked in English. - It is very important that you agree. Your life is in my hands ... and we must talk ... Because you are in a very difficult situation. And if we don’t talk now, your stay in Spain will be very difficult. I work on Western special services, and you work for Russian special services. I know this is shocking, and I am sorry that I have to do it right on the street, but this is the only place where I can speak safely with you. ”

The man who approached Frita was an agent of British intelligence. Frit refused to talk with him and said that he did not understand what was being discussed. Despite this, his interlocutor invited him to become a double agent - and again received a refusal.

The next day, Frit left. Apparently, he went to Russia, where he was known as Sergey Cherepanov, an employee of the foreign intelligence service, who served in Spain, the politico interlocutors believe. Soon after the hasty departure of Fritt, the authorities of Spain asked two employees of the Russian embassy in Madrid, Anton Simbirsky and Alexander Samoshkin, to leave the country. Presumably, the reason for the decision was that they interacted with the Russian Mole (at the Russian embassy in Madrid they refused to comment on this topic).

Politico sources in the European intelligence services claim that Cherepanova-Frit “surrendered” by the former SVR officer, Colonel Alexander Poteev, the one who brought the FBI on the trail of Russian inflorescences in the United States (the most famous of them-Donald Hitfield, Tradesi Fouley and Anna Chapman), and then “surrendered” agents in Germany and the Netherlands. In Russia, Poteeva in absentia sentenced to 25 years in prison for the Stateismman and desertion.

When the European special services went on the trail of Cherepanov, it turned out that in New Zealand a man named “Lawrence Henry Frit” really lived in New Zealand, but he died at the age of one year back in 1937. According to one of the interlocutors of Politico, the name of a boy who died in infancy, an employee of the Russian embassy in New Zealand could choose for an agent of the SVR. To do this, he just had to go to the cemetery and find a suitable grave there.

In Spain, the duties of Cherepanov, apparently, were reduced to the performance of the role of coherent. He regularly met with other Russian agents in third countries, he had a direct access to the decision center in Moscow, he wrote reports on a laptop with data encryption, kept them on a flash drive, and then left it in a agreed place. Flashke later took one of the Russian diplomats working in Madrid. Western special services published photos, which show how the diplomat first pretends to urinate near the road, and then selects a document left under the stone.

According to Politico, the Western intelligence agencies revealed the history of Agent Cherepanov due to the fact that recently Russian intelligence has intensified. According to some estimates, in Europe, the number of agents of the Russian Federation has doubled. The strengthening of the Russian special services occurred after the accession of Crimea: since the official cooperation of the EU with Moscow in some areas was greatly reduced or completely curtailed, Russia has to get information in other ways.