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A source close to the the Maltese foreign office confirmed to Sky News that Skripal was stationed to Malta in 1985 and served into the early 1990s as Cultural and Sports Attache within the Soviet Embassy in Malta. https://news.sky.com/story/russian-spy-poisoning-search-moves-to-skripals-car-11281990

''Secretly, he trawled for prospective agents among the island’s ruling circles and tried to spot Western diplomats, military people or spooks he could attempt to recruit. '' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6220481/Sergei-Skripal-tells-turned-MI6-sharing-secrets.html