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Ex-US army officer pleads guilty to spying for Russia

By AFP
November 19, 2020

Washington: A former officer in the US Army’s elite Special Forces unit the Green Berets pleaded guilty on Wednesday to spying for Russia, the Justice Department said.

Peter Rafael Dzibinski Debbins, 45, is to be sentenced on February 26, 2021 and faces a maximum penalty of life in prison.