In the year of the London Olympics the spy has finally come home.

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The story is simple and fun: a 15-year-old American boy is a super spy in London.

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Accused by British authorities of murdering a fellow ex-spy, Alexander Litvinenko, in London last November, he's now in the middle of already strained tensions between the Britain and Russia.

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London (CNN) -- A British spy found dead at his home in 2010 -- his naked body padlocked inside a large red carrying bag stowed in the bathtub -- was either suffocated or poisoned, but it is unlikely his death will ever be satisfactorily explained, coroner Fiona Wilcox said Wednesday.

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He's the former Russian spy who became a Kremlin critic while living in exile in London.

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To general astonishment, this revealed that an 87-year-old great-grandmother from London's southern suburbs, Melita Norwood, had been a Soviet spy for nearly 40 years.

BBC: Spying scandal spreads

Some reports say that Britain's spy-catchers were alarmed after they noted her meeting with a known Russian intelligence officer in London.

ECONOMIST: Russian espionage

Some of those convinced that Ms Zatuliveter is indeed a spy think the Russian foreign intelligence service, the SVR, recruited her only after she started working in London.

ECONOMIST: Russian espionage