Senior US soldier suspected of spying for Russia arrested at Nato base in UK | BBC News

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A senior US soldier has been arrested in the UK on suspicion of spying for Russia. The 41-year-old officer was detained on Tuesday. Counter-terrorism police said the man had been arrested under national security laws relating to obtaining or disclosing protected information and assisting a foreign intelligence service. The BBC understands the soldier is based at Imjin Barracks in Gloucestershire, which is headquarters of Nato's Allied Rapid Reaction Corps, a strategic operational base for the alliance. The director of the FBI director Kash Patel said in a statement: "This important arrest…

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