German football coach unmasked as suspected Russian double agent

German volunteer football coach Carsten Linke has been named as the alleged Russian spy at the centre of the greatest European intelligence crisis in decades.

German football coach unmasked as suspected Russian double agent
German volunteer football coach Carsten Linke has been named as the alleged Russian spy at the centre of the greatest European intelligence crisis in decades. Linke, a 52-year-old father of two, is the suspected Russian double agent arrested for treason in December within Germany’s foreign intelligence service Mr Linke was seen as a promising figure in the BND, managing units focused on foreign communication and internal security.
He is accused of leaking confidential intelligence to Moscow, some of which pertains to Ukraine, according to Der Spiegel.
As a result of Carsten Linke’s arrest, a volunteer football coach, the BND has suffered enormous embarrassment, and there are also questions about how the West’s allies will share intelligence during the continuing war in Ukraine.