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.See the full content of this document
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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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