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100 1  Volodarsky, Boris|4aut 
245 10 The KGB's Poison Factory /|cBoris Volodarsky 
264  1 |bPen and Sword,|c2022 
300    288 sidor 
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520    In late November 2006 the world was shaken by the ruthless
       assassination in London of Alexander Litvinenko, a former 
       Lt Col of the Russian security service (FSB). The murder 
       was the most notorious crime committed by the Russian 
       intelligence on foreign soil in over three decades. The 
       author, Boris Volodarsky, who was consulted by the 
       Metropolitan Police during the investigation and remains 
       in close contact with Litvinenko’s widow, is a 
       former Russian military intelligence officer and an 
       international expert in special operations. His narrative 
       reveals that since 1917 – beginning with Lenin and 
       his Cheka – the Russian security services have 
       regularly carried out bespoke poisoning operations all 
       over the world to eliminate the enemies of the Kremlin. 
       The author proves that the Litvinenko’s poisoning is
       just one episode in the chain of murders that continues 
       until the present day. Some of these assassinations or 
       attempted assassinations are already known, others are 
       revealed here for the first time.Uniquely Volodarsky has 
       had a personal involvement in almost every each of the 20 
       cases, from the radioactive thallium poisoning of the 
       Soviet defector Nikolai Khokhlov in Frankfurt in September
       1957 to the ricin ‘umbrella murder’ of the 
       Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov in London in 1978. "Here,
       for the fan of murder thrillers and modern history alike, 
       is a cracking good read. In brilliant light we see what 
       lay for nearly a century behind the London polonium 
       poisoning of British citizen Alexander Litvinenko, former 
       Russian. It was just one recent hit by the world's most 
       prolific serial killer -- the Russian state. With original
       research guided by his insider's eye and scholarly care, 
       Boris Volodarsky recounts scores of murders. Assassination
       emerges as state policy, as institutionalized bureacracy, 
       as day-to-day routine, as laboratory science, as a branch 
       of medicine researching ways not to stave off death but to
       deliver it in apparently innocent or accidental forms, and
       as engineering technology, devising ever-new devices to 
       meet each new requirement, from umbrella tips and 
       cigarette cases and rolled-up newspapers -- to 
       Litvinenko's teacup." Tennent H. Bagley, former CIA chief 
       of Soviet Bloc counterintelligence. [Elib] 
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