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10-27-2007, 03:09 AM
The former Russian spy poisoned in a London hotel was an MI6 agent.
EXCLUSIVE By STEPHEN WRIGHT and DAVID WILLIAMS Last updated at 01:05am on 27th October 2007
"Alexander Litvinenko was receiving a retainer of around £2,000 a month from the British security services at the time he was murdered.
The disclosure, by diplomatic and intelligence sources, is the latest twist in the Litvinenko affair, which has plunged relations between London and Moscow to their lowest point since the Cold War.
On the day of the poisoning, November 1, former KGB agent Mr Litvinenko met prime suspect Andrei Lugovoy at the Millennium Hotel in Grosvenor Square, London.
Mr Lugovoy claims that Mr Litvinenko tried to recruit him to supply information to MI6. The businessman, another former KGB agent, also alleged that his ex-colleague asked him to find candidates for political asylum here. He left Britain for Russia soon after, and has never returned.
Mr Litvinenko had defected to Britain in 2000 and was granted political asylum the following year with his wife Marina, 44, and son Anatoly, 12.
It is understood that Sir John Scarlett, now the head of MI6 and once based in Moscow, was involved in recruiting him to the Secret Intelligence Service.
The fact that the 43-year-old ex-Russian spy was actually working for Britain when he died could provide the key to his extraordinary killing.
After an exhaustive Scotland Yard investigation, the Crown Prosecution Service announced earlier this year that there was sufficient evidence to charge Mr Lugovoy with 'deliberate poisoning'.
Britain has called for his extradition so he can stand trial at the Old Bailey, but the Kremlin refused the request in July.
In an echo of the Cold War era, Britain then expelled four Russian diplomats from London.
Days later, Moscow responded with a tit-for-tat expulsion of four Britons.
Intelligence sources have told the Daily Mail that they do not expect a trial will ever take place.
They also said there remains a 'perceived threat' against Mrs Litvinenko, who lives with her son at a safe house in the Home Counties. Mr Litvinenko died in hospital on November 23 after three agonising weeks in which his hair fell out, his skin turned yellow and his organs failed."
Full article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=490007&in_page_id=1770
Fishy story, to begin with, calling him ex-spy.
but
Only 2000 pounds a month? I think even a chip whore gets more in London, that’s a reference to a “sell yourself business”.
EXCLUSIVE By STEPHEN WRIGHT and DAVID WILLIAMS Last updated at 01:05am on 27th October 2007
"Alexander Litvinenko was receiving a retainer of around £2,000 a month from the British security services at the time he was murdered.
The disclosure, by diplomatic and intelligence sources, is the latest twist in the Litvinenko affair, which has plunged relations between London and Moscow to their lowest point since the Cold War.
On the day of the poisoning, November 1, former KGB agent Mr Litvinenko met prime suspect Andrei Lugovoy at the Millennium Hotel in Grosvenor Square, London.
Mr Lugovoy claims that Mr Litvinenko tried to recruit him to supply information to MI6. The businessman, another former KGB agent, also alleged that his ex-colleague asked him to find candidates for political asylum here. He left Britain for Russia soon after, and has never returned.
Mr Litvinenko had defected to Britain in 2000 and was granted political asylum the following year with his wife Marina, 44, and son Anatoly, 12.
It is understood that Sir John Scarlett, now the head of MI6 and once based in Moscow, was involved in recruiting him to the Secret Intelligence Service.
The fact that the 43-year-old ex-Russian spy was actually working for Britain when he died could provide the key to his extraordinary killing.
After an exhaustive Scotland Yard investigation, the Crown Prosecution Service announced earlier this year that there was sufficient evidence to charge Mr Lugovoy with 'deliberate poisoning'.
Britain has called for his extradition so he can stand trial at the Old Bailey, but the Kremlin refused the request in July.
In an echo of the Cold War era, Britain then expelled four Russian diplomats from London.
Days later, Moscow responded with a tit-for-tat expulsion of four Britons.
Intelligence sources have told the Daily Mail that they do not expect a trial will ever take place.
They also said there remains a 'perceived threat' against Mrs Litvinenko, who lives with her son at a safe house in the Home Counties. Mr Litvinenko died in hospital on November 23 after three agonising weeks in which his hair fell out, his skin turned yellow and his organs failed."
Full article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=490007&in_page_id=1770
Fishy story, to begin with, calling him ex-spy.
but
Only 2000 pounds a month? I think even a chip whore gets more in London, that’s a reference to a “sell yourself business”.