A Spanish NATO officer had an affair with a Polish woman, the services suspended him after discovering the relationship

According to the newspaper, the woman was born in the Soviet Union, then moved to Poland and later emigrated to Great Britain. He has Polish and British citizenship. A Spanish MARCOM naval officer - serving at the Northwood base, which monitors the Russian shadow fleet - began an affair with her on Tinder in October 2024.

The Spaniard is a married father of two children, but he separated from his wife shortly before starting a relationship with the Polish woman at the end of 2024. The woman was then separated from her husband, a prominent member of the city council. In December 2024, Janina White received an invitation to the Northwood base for a Christmas gathering.

At the beginning of 2025, the Spanish and NATO services became interested in the relationship and suspended the officer from his duties, banning him from entering the base and withdrawing his passes.

A 'totally innocent' stay

Meanwhile, as the newspaper writes, just 10 days after losing the right to enter Northwood, the Spanish military man went with White to the NATO base in Oeiras, Portugal, to take part in a defense event. However, White argues in an interview with The Daily Telegraph that her stay at the base was "completely innocent" and was limited to drinking tea and coffee by the pool.

While he had access to all these super-secure computers and data, I sat by the pool drinking coffee and tea. I spent two days in probably the safest NATO base in Europe, White told the newspaper, not hiding that she was even a bit bored.

The woman told The Daily Telegraph that this summer, when she was visiting her sick father in St. Petersburg, a secret service officer nicknamed "Andrei" contacted her and invited her for coffee. He wanted to know the details of the security investigation and her relationship with the Spanish military.

Half of the questions were about how I met my ex-partner, how the rumors appeared and what I thought about it, she says.

Currently, he is no longer in contact with the Spaniard. The soldier, whose details are not disclosed by the newspaper, returned to Spain. He complains that after years of impeccable service, he is now unfairly vilified.

The Daily Telegraph emphasizes that White has never been arrested for espionage nor have any charges been brought against her. She claims she never tried to enter the base illegally and is suing the British Ministry of Defense (MOD) for ethnic discrimination.

I definitely know that I am not a Russian spy. Last time I checked, I wasn't. The entire state machinery treated me as an enemy, she told the daily.