Putin: Russian secret services don't kill traitors - Washington Post: "MOSCOW -- The 'swine' who exposed the 10 Russian sleeper spies in the United States will not be tracked down and killed, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday, saying Russia has abandoned the Soviet-era practice of killing turncoats.
'Russia's special services don't do that,' he said during a televised call-in show. 'As for the traitors, they will croak all by themselves. Whatever equivalent of 30 pieces of silver they get, it will get stuck in their throats.'
The role played by a Russian intelligence officer in exposing the sleeper spies was first reported last month by the newspaper Kommersant. President Dmitry Medvedev confirmed the report, saying only that he had 'found out about it on the day it happened.'
Addressing the betrayal directly for the first time Thursday, Putin said the spies had been exposed by a fellow intelligence officer.
'Those people sacrificed their lives to serve the Motherland, and there happened to be an animal who betrayed them,' Putin said. 'How will he live with it all his life, how will he look his children in the eye? Swine!'"
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