Sergei Skripal’s poisoning appears to occupy broken unwritten rules,but some say they never existedUS and Russian intelligence officers who operated during the cold war largely acknowledge that Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies is a fair portrayal of how a spy swap used to be. The film reflects a world in which there seemed to be an unwritten “spy etiquette”. Those captured would be exchanged rather than executed, and would not be hunted down later in revenge assassinations. Mark Galeotti, and a senior researcher at the Institute of International Relations in Prague,said this etiquette had broken down under Vladimir Putin, the Russian president and former KGB officer..
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Source: guardian.co.uk