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Bugs, bribes and burglary: Tony Brenton discovered how far Russia’s rulers would go to keep power…

Daily Mail / Mail Online

Should you get home to find the door to your flat unlocked from the inside, that’s just the FSB (the KGB’s successor) letting you know they called. If you pick up the phone to hear your voice played back, as I have, someone is recording your conversations.

Such was my life in Russia during my time as a senior official and then as British Ambassador from 2004 to 2008.

Occasionally the surveillance and harassment were merely funny, such as when a female colleague spotted a handsome man three times in the course of the same day before realising this was the FSB trailing her.