University Caught Up in Centre of Russian Spy Plot

Summary


A Midland stately home and the University of Birmingham unwittingly found themselves at the centre of an international espionage scandal which ended with a Russian spy being jailed for 15 years.

AMoscow court sentenced Igor Sutyagin to a maximum security prison after finding him guilty of passing on information on nuclear submarines and missile-warning systems while he was attending a University of Birmingham conference at Wast Hills House, Kings Norton, in February 1998.

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University Caught Up in Centre of Russian Spy Plot

While staying at the stately home, which was formerly owned by the Cadbury family, Sutyagin met officials from British firm Alter...

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