and then he didn't serve out that time. in 2010 he was pardoned and traded to the west, traded in a western spy swap. he and three other russian prisoner were swapped for ten russians operating an undercover spy ring in the united states. ultimately he went to live in britain the country for which he had done his spying and of course he was the man who ended up slumped on a park bench in the british town of salisbury last week. he was in some sort of fugue state. witnesses described him making strange hand motions while otherwise being nonresponsive while his 33-year-old daughter slumped next to him unconscious with her eyes rolled back in her head. sergei skripal and his daughter yulia. he was seen as a very, very consequential double agent, somebody whose spying for britain had done profound damage to russia's intelligence services. it doesn't take a great leap of