A SECURITY guard caught in an MI5 sting after selling secrets to Russia yesterday denied he was a spy, claiming: "I was an obstinate brat."
David Smith, 58, hoarded documents and was caught filming a man named "Dmitry" he thought was a Russian "traitor" where he worked at the British embassy in Berlin.
But it was actually an undercover sting and the man was a British spook.
Smith, of Paisley, told a court yesterday: "I'm disgusted with myself.
At the time I didn't think about what I was doing. I'm disgusted with myself and ashamed of what I've done.
"I was like an obstinate brat. I had not planned to do anything like that, it was just something that happened." Smith had also been approached by an MI5 "agent provocateur" named Irina, posing as a GRU Russian intelligence officer.
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