you scooped me by 20+ minutes. Good work, C4 man.

This case keeps getter odder and odder. It is fast morphing into something we have seen before - passing off "info" to allies.

I got a kick out of this, from the NY Times article:

Aleksei Pavlov, a Kremlin spokesman, dismissed the notion that Russia was stepping up spying and said Mr. Simm “never had any connection with any type of Russian government agency.” He added that domestic considerations, including terrorism, were the priority for Russia now.

“It is not exactly the case where we will be activating our international network,” he said.
Pavlov is of course telling the truth since the SovCom-Russian network was never deactivated.