"In the days after the strange death of Alexander Litvinenko, I was
struck by how far-fetched were the rumours cloaking his sinister end in
a London hospital. Among the reasons he was considered a target was
that he had written a book alleging that agents from the Russian secret
service (FSB), in which he had been a Lieutenant-Colonel, had organised
the 1999 apartment block bombings that resulted in 300 deaths in Moscow
and other Russian cities.
That book was assumed to be in circulation, but nowhere was it
available save in samizdat form. Now it is being published, and if
everyone thinks they know the contents, they damned well don't.
Litvinenko describes a supposedly democratic Russia 'absolutely' in the
grip of the secret service, with bodies all over the place =AD gunned
down in doorways, beheaded and buried in Yaroslavl peat bogs, or
poisoned with radioactive material from a special laboratory at 42
Krasnobogatyrskaya Street in Moscow.
Litvineko names FSB assassins (Maxim Lazovsky, Dyshekov Ramazan); he
gives addresses, phone numbers and codenames ('The Cripple', 'The Uzbek
Quartet'); he explains how they were paid ($300 up front with $2,000
after a kill, in counterfeit dollars)."
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