MOSCOW-DEATH MAN 'KNEW OF EMBASSY SPY'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96B01172R000300020011-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 2005
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: October 3, 1983
• Content Type: NSPR

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Now'' 0-w-death
mars: , knew of
embassy spy'
?.,By. NNIGEL, WADE in Moscow
R 'DENNIS SKINNER, the Midland Bank
rspresentative'found dead after plunging
from a :Moscow ;apartment in.,Jltne,. gave. ,a
warning of a spy; in the British Embassy,"
two days before his.death.
Mr Skinner; 54, had worked,in Moscow since
1967 aud'was'doyen of the British business community.
On the aftei'noon of June,----"-
1S?he appeared it the'doorof I due to be in England for a
business meeting.
a neighbouring: British busi Either it was :rnine .or It
nessman, Mr . Bill, Gape, of was all in his mind," said Mr
Rank-Xerox, . and gave his Cane..
wife, Mrs Vel' Cane,-' a hand ' Either way, you would have
itten,. (oolscap note , to take it seriously."
wr
Mrs-Came told-nse yesterday: Mr Skinner handed his note
t' Lt.'iuat;said.' *I believe that to . Mrs Cane at abort 3 p.m.
when I. to to the embassy this an the 15th and Mr Cane took
evening for bhe Queen's birth-. it directly to the embassy,
day party 'I will be_arrested. where he was received by It,
Please go to the embassy for John Burnett, the senior
guards to' be there, in case security officer.
try to make a. run for it'. . Mr Canr said he pointed Mr
Mrs Cane continued : "The skinner out to Mr fturnett at
note said it he was arrested the Queen's birthday party that
he would not get' out alive. evening and they had a talk.
Then it said that there was a ' When bt, Cane later asked
spy in the British Embassy and Mr Skinner hmw he was, the.
at the bottom it said 'Please backer replied: "-WCe are not
do this for me or I 'am a out of the woods