Russian leader Vladimir Putin will use the coronavirus crisis to recruit an unknowing army of Western sleeper agents, an ex-spy chief has warned.
British military intelligence colonel Philip Ingram claimed the Kremlin are hell-bent on killing the West with “a thousand cuts.” The campaign will consist of “information bombs” of fake news, spies from Russia's GRU intelligence unit disguised as doctors, and social media analysis to identify people who can be provoked into “causing damage" to Britain and beyond.
Mr Ingram – who commanded 1 Military Intelligence Battalion during his 26-year career as a spook – told Daily Star Online that “mad” Putin wants to cause a Soviet-style collapse in the West.