{"id":4207,"date":"2026-11-11T14:03:45","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T09:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4207"},"modified":"2026-11-11T14:03:45","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T09:03:45","slug":"us-army-soldier-arrested-in-uk-on-suspicion-of-spying-for-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4207","title":{"rendered":"US Army soldier arrested in UK on suspicion of spying for Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A senior US Army soldier was arrested in Britain on suspicion of assisting Russian \u200bintelligence, British police said on Tuesday, after the US \u200cremoved aircraft from British military bases over a separate apparent threat from Iran.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>FBI Director Kash Patel said the arrest of the 41-year-old man was related to \u201callegations of espionage, \u200bwhich is of the utmost concern to the United States \u200band our allies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brigadier General Sean Stinchon, the commanding general \u2060of US Army Counterintelligence Command, added: \u201cThe alleged conduct of a \u200bsenior soldier, entrusted with sensitive information, is a sobering reminder that \u200binsider threats are real and persistent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The arrest, which took place near the city of Gloucester, west England, on Tuesday, \u201cis not linked to any other ongoing Counter Terrorism \u200bPolicing investigations\u201d, British police said.<\/p>\n<p>But it occurred the day after \u200bthe <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/us-aircraft-evacuated-second-uk-base-due-iran-threat-wsj-reports-2026-11-10\/\"><u>US removed refuelling aircraft<\/u><\/a> from a British airbase in the second such apparent \u200cevacuation \u2060in three months.<\/p>\n<p>Planes left the Royal Air Force base in Mildenhall, eastern England on Monday, which, according to the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>, was prompted by a threat from Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The US in September withdrew \u200bbombers that had \u200bbeen used to \u2060strike Iran from <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/uk\/us-removes-b-1-bombers-uk-base-amid-security-concerns-2026-10-04\/\"><u>RAF Fairford<\/u><\/a> on security grounds over an incident police have linked to Iran, which \u200bhas denied any links to attacks or incidents in \u200bBritain.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2060US Army soldier arrested on Tuesday was detained on suspicion of offences under sections 1 and 3 of the National Security Act, which relate \u2060to \u200bobtaining or disclosing protected information and assisting \u200ba foreign intelligence service. Police said the country to which the allegations relate is \u200bRussia.<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior US Army soldier was arrested in Britain on suspicion of assisting Russian \u200bintelligence, British police said on Tuesday, after the US \u200cremoved aircraft from British military bases over a separate apparent threat from Iran. FBI Director Kash Patel said the arrest of the 41-year-old man was related to \u201callegations of espionage, \u200bwhich is of the utmost concern to the United States \u200band our allies.\u201d Brigadier General Sean Stinchon, the commanding general \u2060of US Army Counterintelligence Command, added: \u201cThe alleged conduct of a \u200bsenior soldier, entrusted with sensitive information,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}