Russian spooks played dirty tricks on a British diplomat’s young family while he was with Princess Diana, newly released files show.

The hitherto secret memo reveals how Andrew Carter and his wife had been at the prestigious Bolshoi Theatre with the Princess of Wales while they left their two young children with a babysitter.

They arrived home from her much-feted outing to ‘strange happenings’, including the nanny and their son being in a state of distress, two cases of water being missing and a computer, which had been disconnected, having beeen plugged in with a CD-ROM inserted.

The incident in 1995 led the deputy ambassador to warn that the ‘rising trend’ of dark arts would harm bilateral relations between the nations.

Other nefarious activity blamed on the FSB security and counter-

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