John Alexander Symonds (13 July 1935 – 7 January 2017) was an English Metropolitan Police officer and KGB agent.
[1] Symonds claimed later that he had been "fitted up" and forced to leave under pain of death after having threatened to expose during any trial "the endemic and systemic corruption within the Metropolitan Police service" at the time.
He was directed by his Soviet masters to seduce women working in Western embassies with the aim of obtaining secrets.
Symonds revealed himself as a spy to the police and security services in the 1980s, and appeared on the front page of the Daily Express (1985) and in the News on Sunday (1987), but was dismissed as "a fantasist".
[7][8] Prodigy Pictures were for some time in the pre-production stage of making a movie based on the autobiography of John Symonds.