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Book Synopsis The Phony Litvinenko Murder by : William Dunkerley
Download or read book The Phony Litvinenko Murder written by William Dunkerley and published by . This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's greatest media hoax is finally outed. It features an obscure Russian law officer whose 2006 death burst into world headlines. Claiming Alexander Litvinenko was a former KGB spy, news reports said he blamed Vladimir Putin for poisoning him with polonium. But the headlines had no factual basis. They were part of a massive hoax. That's what author William Dunkerley found when commissioned by the International Federation of Journalists to investigate the reportage. Dunkerley presented his exclusive peer-reviewed revelations at the organization's World Congress. Now you can get the same penetrating insights from his book The Phony Litvinenko Murder. The author reveals who was behind the hoax and the motives that propelled it all. There are many other books on the Litvinenko case, but author Dunkerley uniquely takes on the mainstream fabrications that have fooled so many people. His book is replete with actual citations of the phony news headlines that tricked the world. In a sequel, Litvinenko Murder Case Solved, Dunkerley exposes how the UK government tried to paper over what really happened.
Book Synopsis The Murder of Alexander Litvinenko by : Boris Volodarsky
Download or read book The Murder of Alexander Litvinenko written by Boris Volodarsky and published by White Owl. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his famous Moonlight and Vodka, Chris de Burgh got it right: Espionage is a serious business. And like every serious business, it must be taken seriously. Less than two decades after the untimely death of Sasha Litvinenko, poisoned at the heart of London’s Mayfair by Russian secret agents by the previously unknown radioactive substance containing a fatal dose of Polonium-210, it is hardly remembered by anyone in the West. No wonder, we live in an information-rich world when the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. Such an obvious thing was suddenly discovered by a simple old man from Milwaukee, and he’s got a point there. This book is about the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, whose legal case seems to many people like open-and-shut. Even to his widow Marina and their son. To MI6, MI5 and the Special Operations branch of the London’s Metropolitan Police who presented it to the public as thoroughly investigated and closed. To judge Sir Robert Owen appointed to hold the inquest “into the death of a Russian Spy” as the BBC and other media has put it – a terrible mistake. To journalists and writers who had been following this case for as long as a decade, not to mention the prime suspect living a good life in Moscow. But not for me. For me this case remains open.
Book Synopsis Death of a Dissident by : Alex Goldfarb
Download or read book Death of a Dissident written by Alex Goldfarb and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first reports seemed absurd. A Russian dissident, formerly an employee of the KGB and its successor, the FSB, had seemingly been poisoned in a London hotel. As Alexander Litvinenko's condition worsened, however, and he was transferred to hospital and placed under armed guard, the story took a sinister turn. On 23 November 2006, Litvinenko died, apparently from polonium-210 radiation poisoning. He himself, in a dramatic statement from his deathbed, accused his former employers at the Kremlin of being responsible for his murder. Who was Alexander Litvinenko? What had happened in Russia since the end of the Cold War to make his life there untenable, and even in severe jeopardy in Britain? How did he really die, and who killed him? In his spokesman and close friend, Alex Goldfarb, and widow Marina, we have two people who know more than anyone about the real Sasha Litvinenko, and about his murder. Their riveting book sheds astonishing light not just on these strange and troubling events but also on the biggest crisis in relations with Russia since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Book Synopsis The Litvinenko File by : Martin Sixsmith
Download or read book The Litvinenko File written by Martin Sixsmith and published by MacMillan. This book was released on 2007 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length account of the radiation poisoning murder of Alexander Litvinenko, ex-KGB officer who turned against the Kremlin and fled Moscow. Includes 8-page photo insert.
Book Synopsis The Litvinenko File by : Martin Sixsmith
Download or read book The Litvinenko File written by Martin Sixsmith and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2007-05-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 7 2006, in a Highgate Cemetery drenched with London rain, a Russian was buried within a stone's throw of the grave of Karl Marx. He was Alexander Litvinenko, Sasha to his friends, a boy from the deep Russian provinces who rose through the ranks of the world's most feared security service. Litvinenko was the man who denounced murder and corruption in the Russian government, fled from the wrath of the Kremlin, came to London, and allied himself with Moscow's sworn enemies. Now he was a martyr, condemned by foes unknown to an agonizing death in a hospital bed thousands of miles from home. Martin Sixsmith draws on his long experience as the BBC's Moscow correspondent and his contact with the key London-based Russians to dissect Alexander Litvinenko's murder. Myriad theories have been put forward since he died, but the story goes back to 2000 when hostilities were declared between the Kremlin and its political opponents. This is a war that has blown hot and cold for over six years, and that has pitted some of Russia's strongest, richest men against the most powerful Russian president since Josef Stalin. The conflict is also beginning to revive horrors of the days of the KGB, in a conflict that looks set only to intensify as the March 2008 presidential election approaches. The Litvinenko File is a gripping inside account of a shocking act of murder, when Russia's war with itself spilled over onto the streets of London and made the world take notice.
Book Synopsis The KGB's Poison Factory by : Boris Volodarsky
Download or read book The KGB's Poison Factory written by Boris Volodarsky and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Litvinenkos 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 Litvinenkos 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.
Book Synopsis A Very Expensive Poison by : Luke Harding
Download or read book A Very Expensive Poison written by Luke Harding and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On November 1, 2006, journalist and Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in London. He died twenty-two days later. The cause of death was Polonium--a rare, lethal, and highly radioactive substance. This is the inside story of the life and death of Litvinenko. And it is the story of the aftermath: a decade of geopolitical disruptions still felt today. In A Very Expensive Poison, Luke Harding guides readers through a maze of spies, intrigue, organized crime, and political power players to uncover the truth about Litvinenko's murder. In doing so, not only does he also become a target, but he also unearths a chain of corruption and death leading straight to Vladimir Putin, which sheds a terrifying light on Russia's secret war with the West.
Book Synopsis Litvinenko Murder Case Solved by : William Dunkerley
Download or read book Litvinenko Murder Case Solved written by William Dunkerley and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KGB Spy Murder Solved: A notorious 2006 Russian spy murder has finally been solved. "Ex-KGB Spy Murdered on Orders of Putin" was a typical headline back in the day. Alexander Litvinenko died of nuclear poisoning ordered by Russian president Vladimir Putin, news stories alleged. Now there's finally a solution to this puzzling and long-unsolved case. Author William Dunkerley's groundbreaking research uncovered a surprising mystery inside the mystery. It led straight to the only reasonable conclusion. His new book, "Litvinenko Murder Case Solved," spells it all out in clear and authoritative terms. Dunkerley has been dubbed the world's foremost authority on how this case has been covered in the news. He was called into the case by the International Federation of Journalists in 2007. His charge was to conduct extensive research into all the Litvinenko media reports. Dunkerley claims that many of the news reports about Litvinenko don't match the facts. "While news reports proclaimed a murder, no coroner ever ruled the death a homicide. Millions were spent on an inquest, but the mystery still went unsolved," he says. What's more, Dunkerley explains, a widely-reported deathbed accusation against Putin has since been proven a hoax. The hoaxer even confessed. What could account for these and other discrepancies? Dunkerley begins with general background on the case. Then he presents a riveting analysis of all the ins and outs that led to solving the case. An extensive collection of live reports offers rare insights into all the key developments right from the start of the Coroner's Inquest.
Book Synopsis The Litvinenko Inquiry by : Litveninko Inquiry
Download or read book The Litvinenko Inquiry written by Litveninko Inquiry and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Inquiry looked into the death of Alexander Litvinenko who died in University College Hospital, London on 23 November 2006. The terms and reference for this investigation were as follows: (i) ascertain, in accordance with section 5 (1) of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, who the deceased was; how, when and where he came by his death; and the particulars (if any) required by the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 to be registered concerning the death; (ii) identify, so far as is consistent with section 2 of the Inquiries Act 2005, where responsibility for the death lies; (iii) make such recommendations as may seem appropriate. Among the Inquiry's conclusions are: (i) Examination of Mr Litvinenko's body and detailed testing of samples taken from it confirmed that he had died as a result of being poisoned with polonium 210; (ii) There is abundant evidence that Mr Litvinenko met Andrey Lugovoy and his associate Dmitri Kovtun for tea at the Pine Bar of the Millennium Hotel in Mayfair during the afternoon of 1 November 2006. The forensic evidence shows that the Pine Bar was heavily contaminated with polonium 210; (iii) That Mr Litvinenko ingested the fatal dose of polonium 210 whilst drinking tea in the Pine Bar of the Millennium Hotel during the afternoon of 1 November 2006; (iv) That Mr Litvinenko did not ingest the polonium 210 either by accident or to commit suicide, rather, that he was deliberately poisoned by others; (v) That Mr Lugovoy and Mr Kovtun placed the polonium 210 in the teapot at the Pine Bar on 1 November 2006 and they did this with the intention of poisoning Mr Litvinenko; (vi) That Mr Lugovoy and Mr Kovtun knew that they were using a deadly poison and that they intended to kill Mr Litvinenko; (vii) That Mr Lugovoy and Mr Kovtun were acting on behalf of others when they poisoned Mr Litvinenko; (viii) When Mr Lugovoy poisoned Mr Litvinenko, it is probable that he did so under the direction of the FSB; (ix) The FSB operation to kill Mr Litvinenko was probably approved by Mr Patrushev and also by President Putin.
Book Synopsis Blowing Up Russia by : I︠U︡riĭ Felʹshtinskiĭ
Download or read book Blowing Up Russia written by I︠U︡riĭ Felʹshtinskiĭ and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Blowing Up Russia' contains the attacks of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko against his former spymasters in Moscow which led to his being murdered in London by poisoning. Litvinenko and Yuri Felshtinsky detail how, since 1999, the secret service has been hatching a secret plot to return to the terror that was the hallmark of the KGB.
Book Synopsis From Russia with Blood by : Heidi Blake
Download or read book From Russia with Blood written by Heidi Blake and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of how Russia refined the art and science of targeted assassination abroad -- while Western spies watched in horror as their governments failed to guard against the threat They thought they had found a safe haven in the green hills of England. They were wrong. One by one, the Russian oligarchs, dissidents, and gangsters who fled to Britain after Vladimir Putin came to power dropped dead in strange or suspicious circumstances. One by one, their British lawyers and fixers met similarly grisly ends. Yet, one by one, the British authorities shut down every investigation--and carried on courting the Kremlin. The spies in the riverside headquarters of MI6 looked on with horror as the scope of the Kremlin's global killing campaign became all too clear. And, across the Atlantic, American intelligence officials watched with mounting alarm as the bodies piled up, concerned that the tide of death could spread to the United States. Those fears intensified when a one-time Kremlin henchman was found bludgeoned to death in a Washington, D.C. penthouse. But it wasn't until Putin's assassins unleashed a deadly chemical weapon on the streets of Britain, endangering hundreds of members of the public in a failed attempt to slay the double agent Sergei Skripal, that Western governments were finally forced to admit that the killing had spun out of control. Unflinchingly documenting the growing web of death on British and American soil, Heidi Blake bravely exposes the Kremlin's assassination campaign as part of Putin's ruthless pursuit of global dominance-and reveals why Western governments have failed to stop the bloodshed. The unforgettable story that emerges whisks us from London's high-end night clubs to Miami's million-dollar hideouts, ultimately rendering a bone-chilling portrait of money, betrayal, and murder, written with the pace and propulsive power of a thriller. Based on a vast trove of unpublished documents, bags of discarded police evidence, and interviews with hundreds of insiders, this heart-stopping international investigation uncovers one of the most important--and terrifying--geopolitical stories of our time.
Book Synopsis Death of a Dissident by : Alexander Goldfarb
Download or read book Death of a Dissident written by Alexander Goldfarb and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The assassination of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko in November 2006--poisoned by the rare radioactive element polonium--caused an international sensation. Within a few short weeks, the fit 43-year-old lay gaunt, bald, and dying in a hospital, the victim of a "tiny nuclear bomb." Suspicions swirled around Russia's FSB, the successor to the KGB, and the Putin regime. But what really happened? What did Litvinenko know? And why was he killed? The full story of Litvinenko's life and death is one that the Kremlin does not want told. Ever since 1998, when Litvinenko denounced the FSB for ordering him to assassinate tycoon Boris Berezovsky, he had devoted his life to exposing the FSB's darkest secrets. He investigated everything, and he denounced his former employers in no uncertain terms. Litvinenko dedicated his life to exposing this truth; it took his diabolical murder for the world to listen.--From publisher description.
Book Synopsis Allegations by : Alexander Litvinenko
Download or read book Allegations written by Alexander Litvinenko and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Terminal Spy written by Alan Cowell and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fatally poisoned by a rare radioactive isotope slipped into his drink, Russian emigre Alexander Litvinenko issued a dramatic deathbed statement accusing Russian president Vladimir Putin himself of engineering his murder. Alan S. Cowell, then London Bureau Chief of the "New York Times," who covered the story from its inception, has written the definitive story of this assassination and of the profound international implications of this first act of nuclear terrorism.
Download or read book The Terminal Spy written by Alan Cowell and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Russian émigré and former agent Alexander Litvinenko's death by radiation poisoning in a London hospital captured headlines around the globe. It quickly became known as one of the most mysterious and audacious crimes of the post-Cold War era, and triggered an international investigation led by London's top counterterrorism officials. Blending the pace of a thriller with original reportage and research,The Terminal Spydocuments Litvinenko's life and death, the ensuing police investigation, the reaction from Vladimir Putin and others in Moscow, the Russian émigré set in London, and the implications of this case for nuclear proliferation and international terrorism in the future.
Download or read book Red Notice written by Bill Browder and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story of high finance, murder, and one man's fight for justice.
Book Synopsis A Very Expensive Poison by : Luke Harding
Download or read book A Very Expensive Poison written by Luke Harding and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shocking assassination in the heart of London. In a bizarre mix of high-stakes global politics and radioactive villainy, a man pays with his life. At this time of global crises and a looming new Cold War, A Very Expensive Poison sends us careering through the shadowy world of international espionage from Moscow to Mayfair. Lucy Prebble (Enron, The Effect) brings a shocking story to the stage, adapted from the book by Luke Harding, with an astute mix of real events, vaudeville and thriller. This edition was published to coincide with the World Premiere at the Old Vic Theatre, London, in 2019.
