Russian Spy to be Buried as a Muslim

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2486268_1,00.html

May Allah's peace and blessings shelter him from the punishments of the grave, may he attain Jannah Al-Firdous. Ameen.

I wonder what it's like to be a professional spy? Whether this person commited anything which is wholly against the principles of Islam then to take the Shahadah at his death bed? What he would have been going through - tracing his steps back to where he consumed the poison, how and who was killing him - and whether he knew why he was being assasinated? Why he didn't take the Shahadah beforehand (Allah does guide whom he wills afterall)? Having been poisoned, is he classified as being a martyr? Not to mention the sickness of the stomach for which he could be considered a martyr also. Allah hu Alim.