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.
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BORIS
VOLODARSKY is a British intelligence historian, member of the Cambridge
intelligence seminar led by Professor Christopher Andrew. A former military
intelligence officer who defended his doctoral thesis in intelligence history
at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Dr Volodarsky is a
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in London and a former Visiting Fellow
of the Canada Blanch Centre of the LSE. He is a regular contributor to radio
programs and documentaries including BBC Panorama, the British TV series Once
Upon a Time in Londongrad (Sky, 2022) and the Spanish TV series Project
Ninos, (Dmax, 2020) and
the author of many articles published in The Wall Street Journal, The
Times, The Spectator as well as in academic intelligence journals in
Britain and the USA. His previous works include Stalin's Agent, three
volumes of The KGB's Poison Factory (From Lenin to Litvinenko, Assassins
and To Kill a Mocking Bird) and several important studies of
intelligence. As an academic historian, Boris continues to write books on
intelligence history (his current project is a new history of the KGB in six
volumes, the first volume came out in 2023 and the second is planned for 2025)
also producing films where he acts as director and chief consultant. His
documentaries Spy Capital and Spy Capital 2 had their world
premiere in Cannes and received many international prizes as the Best Feature
Film.
