On Wednesday, November 11, British police questioned a senior American soldier working for NATO on suspicion of spying for Russia. The man was arrested following a joint investigation by British law enforcement and the US military.
The British counter-terrorism police announced that the 41-year-old American soldier was arrested near Gloucester in the southwest of the country on charges of violating national security laws and was taken to a police station in London. A senior NATO military official confirmed that the man had been attached to the Alliance's Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC), NATO's standby force led by the British Army based at Imagine Barracks.
This barracks is located next to the sensitive cyber and intelligence center GCHQ. The latest spying scandal comes as tensions between Moscow and European capitals have risen following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and Britain has recently faced suspected security threats at military bases hosting US troops.