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Titolo: Kremlin gave order to kill dissident and former spy

Quando sfilo in corteo non so mai se fare il passo dell'oca di Mosca o
quello di Hitler
Sergio
 
The Times 	November 20, 2006
Kremlin gave order to kill dissident and former spy, claims top defector
Michael Binyon
# Putin angered by Chechnya criticism'
# 'Assassin used to be victim's friend'
Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned on the direct orders of the Kremlin 
because of his biting mockery of President Putin, according to a former 
Soviet spy now living in Britain.
Oleg Gordievsky, the most senior KGB agent to defect to Britain, said 
that the attempt to kill Mr Litvinenko had been state-sponsored.
It was carried out by a Russian friend and former colleague who had been 
recruited secretly in prison by the FSB, the successor to the KGB. The 
Italian who allegedly put poison in Mr Litvinenko’s sushi “had nothing 
to do with it”.
“Of course it is state-sponsored. He was such an obvious enemy. Only the 
KGB is able to do this. The poison was very sophisticated. They have 
done this before — they poisoned Anna Politkovskaya (the campaigning 
journalist murdered on October 7) on a plane last year. Who else would 
know where she was sitting and could poison her food? Probably also it 
was the KGB that shot her.”
Mr Litvinenko, who fled to Britain in 2001, was a target because of the 
Kremlin fury at his sarcastic attacks on President Putin, Mr Gordievsky 
said. “There are three people they hate: Boris Berezovsky, Akhmad 
Zakayev and Sasha (Alexander) Litvinenko, who was writing article after 
article for the Chechen press, laughing at Putin.”
Mr Gordievsky, a former KGB station head in London, who still refers to 
the FSB by its former name, insisted that he did not know the identity 
of the Russian would-be killer.
But he assumed that the man was a former associate of Boris Berezovsky, 
the former oligarch and Yeltsin confidant, who has been granted 
political asylum in Britain.
“He used to be in Mr Berezovsky’s entourage and was imprisoned in 
Moscow. Then suddenly he was released, and soon after that he became a 
businessman and a millionaire. It is all very suspicious. But the KGB 
has recruited agents in prisons and camps since the 1930s. That is how 
they work.”
The man came to London, posing as a businessman and a friend. He met Mr 
Litvinenko at a hotel and put poison in his tea. That was before Mr 
Litvinenko had lunch at a Japanese restaurant with the Italian he knew 
as Mario, who had arranged to meet him because he said he had 
information about the murder of Ms Politkovskaya, a close friend.
“Why should this Italian do it? I know him. He is a solid, respectable 
man. And Sasha was already feeling unwell before the lunch. He was 
poisoned before he met the Italian.”
Mario Scaramella, a consultant for a commission investigating FSB 
activities in Italy, was last night reported to be in protective custody 
“terrified for his life”.
Mr Gordievsky is a close friend of the victim, who lived in North London 
and regularly visited Mr Gordievsky’s house in Godalming, Surrey. 
Talking exclusively to The Times, he painted a sad picture of the former 
lieutenant-colonel in the FSB. “He is rather lonely, like me. But he has 
a tremendous respect for me, as a British agent. He used to report to 
me, asking for my advice.
“He said Britain was a solid, intelligent and beautiful state, with no 
corruption as in Russia, and he was very dedicated to it.”
Mr Gordievsky said he could not go into the details of why Mr Litvinenko 
had agreed to meet his would-be killer. “His wife, Marina is reluctant 
to speak about it. It is all very hurtful, as he was a former friend. 
But now all that has been left to the police, and they have told his 
family not to talk about it.”
According to Mr Gordievsky, Mr Litvinenko began to feel ill that 
evening. His wife called an ambulance. The crew thought that he had food 
poisoning and give him pills.
But his condition deteriorated so the next morning they called an 
ambulance again. “It was only on the tenth day in hospital that the 
doctors realised it was not food poisoning. When his hair began to fall 
out they did toxicology tests, and found that his body contained three 
times the fatal dose of thallium,” he said. Mr Litvinenko lives close to 
Mr Zakayev, a close friend who suspected poisoning. It was Mr Zakayev 
who put the details of the case on the internet, Mr Gordievsky said.
Why did it take so long to report the poisoning to the police? “Because 
British doctors are not familiar with such poisons. He went to the 
doctor, who gave him antibiotics. His wife and son kept telling the 
doctor that he had been poisoned, but the doctor said it was just a 
reaction to the antibiotics. But now he has had very good treatment for 
the past three days in the hospital.”
John Henry, a clinical toxicologist who examined Mr Litvinenko on 
Saturday, said that the former spy was quite seriously sick. “There’s no 
doubt that he’s been poisoned by thallium, and it probably dates back to 
November 1, when he first started to get ill,” he told the BBC.
Mr Gordievsky said those planning the murder would have to have had 
permission from the top.
Mr Litvinenko fled to Britain after being imprisoned for a second time. 
In May 2005 The Times reported how someone pushed a pram containing 
petrol bombs at the front door of his London home. The attempted 
assassination left him “shaken but unhurt”.
Mr Gordievsky said he was fourth — now third — on the Kremlin hitlist. 
The KGB had not been able to reach Boris Berezovsky as he was always 
surrounded by bodyguards.
Mr Zakayev, the Chechen actor whom Moscow wants to extradite on 
terrorism charges, had no protection at home, Mr Gordievsky said, but 
was protected by Mr Berezovsky’s bodyguards when he went out.
What about Mr Gordievsky’s own safety? “What can I do? They can always 
get me by shooting. But this is a small community in this country. We 
look after each other. So probably that is my only hope.”
Blacklisted: the men wanted by Moscow
Oleg Gordievsky
Former deputy head of the KGB at the Soviet Embassy in London and a 
highly successful double agent for MI6. He joined the KGB in 1963 and 
was posted to Copenhagen, where he became disenchanted — a fact noticed 
by MI6, which recruited him. He was the KGB’s Resident-designate in 
London in 1982, but he was suddenly ordered back to Moscow and arrested 
in 1985. Although suspected and interrogated he was allowed to go home 
and contacted MI6, which managed to smuggle him out
Boris Berezovsky
Fugitive billionaire living in a Surrey and wanted in Moscow on massive 
fraud charges. A mathematician who began selling cars under perestroika 
and after the collapse of communism became Russia’s first billionaire. 
He became close to President Yeltsin and used his influence to increase 
his holdings in Aeroflot and several oil properties. Helped to finance 
Yeltsin’s second election campaign, then backed Putin in 2000 but the 
latter resented Berezovsky’s interference and opened investigations into 
his business dealings
Ahmad Zakayev
Former actor who became Minister of Culture in Chechnya — and at the 
start of the first Chechen war a general in the Chechen army. A 
political moderate, he negotiated with Russia to end the first war, and 
then became deputy prime minister. He was wounded in the second Chechen 
war and was granted political asylum in Britain in 2003. Now lives in 
London and is acting vice-premier of Chechnya’s underground government. 
Was accused by Russia of planning the Moscow theatre siege. A court 
turned down an extradition request, saying he was at risk of torture
Leonid Nevzlin
A right-hand man of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, former owner of the Yukos oil 
company and now in a Siberian labour camp. He has been charged in Russia 
of a plot to kill individuals who posed a danger to Yukos. He claims 
that Putin is taking revenge for supporting his political opponents. 
Lives in Israel
Vladimir Gusinsky
Former theatre director who became one of Russia’s most powerful media 
magnates. Fell out with the Kremlin when NTV, his independent television 
station, became critical of the Chechnya war. In 2000 Gusinsky was 
accused of embezzlement and money laundering and was forced into exile 
in Israel, where he holds citizenship

 Sergio
Vero che per voi nazicompagni questo dubbio deve essere lancinante.
Tb
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 Vero che per voi nazicompagni questo dubbio deve essere lancinante.
Per vostra fortuna, voi giudeofascisti, non avete dubbi.

 P
Ma eri anche tu a fare il passo dell'oca???
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 Tb
#_Miserabile...Non ti smentisci mai!
G.

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Gia', considerando che poi Sergei non sa se fare l'heil o il pugno 
alzato. 
Cmq. e' un periodo d'oro per gli antimperialisti: agiscono persino nel 
centro di Londra, che vuoi di piu' dalla vita...
Am.

"amalric" <ama...@TOGLIMIalice.it> wrote in message
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#_Eccolo qua l'altro martellatore indefesso!...Segretario del 'Miserabile' e
divoratore di agnelli alla menta!
Una dose di Polonio in quell'arrosto, prima o poi, non te la toglie nessuno
ormai.
Giano

 Quando sfilo in corteo non so mai se fare il passo dell'oca di Hitler
amalricuccio,
mi mandi il video di come sfili in corteo con il passo dell'oca e con il
culo in aria pronto per essere trafficato dai tuoi camerati nazisti e
fascisti?  
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