ten russians who had been 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 described as 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. he was seen in russia as a very, very consequential double agent. somebody who s spying for britain had done profound damage to russian intelligence services. and because of that, it doesn t take a great leap of imagination to figure out why somebody might have wanted to ait ta attack