HK and Bangkok step aside, Vienna’s claim as spy capital is strong

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HK and Bangkok step aside, Vienna’s claim as spy capital is strong

Egisto Ott is no James Bond. But the stories the 63-year-old Austrian told a Viennese jury recently would make good plotlines. Ott worked as an intelligence officer in Austria’s now-defunct Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism. He was also moonlighting for the Russians. Prosecutors say Ott, who was sentenced to four […] The post HK and Bangkok step aside, Vienna’s claim as spy capital is strong appeared first on Asia Times .

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