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"The level is low, today they arrest someone and if he becomes a turncoat they arrest another... wretched low-level," he was quoted as saying over his wiretapped phone.

Between dead drops and TOR, this meant unlike traditional drug rings, no one actually has to meet face-to-face, shielding the operation from undercovers, turncoats and stool pigeons.

Eventually they squeezed into a hovel before being discovered by a turncoat cabinet member.

The turncoat was not only defeated but humiliated.

Kremlin political critics, turncoat spies and investigative journalists have been killed or assaulted in a variety of way s.