Recent Russian Intelligence Operations

[davidbfpo]

An interesting account of this Russian FSB defector's death; the sub-title says:

This week, the inquiry into the death of Alexander Litvinenko will deliver its findings. The former Russian spy was poisoned with a cup of tea in a London hotel. Working with Scotland Yard detectives, as he lay dying, he traced the lethal substance to a former comrade in the Russian secret service

Link:http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...P=share_btn_tw

The murder was in October 2006 and only this week did an official inquiry come to an end. This BBC link has more:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35378626

[davidbfpo]

A short article on a "deep cover" Russian spy in Madrid, Spain for twenty years, using a New Zealand ID and a SIS approach - which was rejected:http://www.politico.eu/interactive/t...an-spy-moscow/

[Azor]

Thoughts on this one? SVR? Suicide? Accident?

[davidbfpo]

Thoughts on this one? SVR? Suicide? Accident?

There's enough doubt in that case to be very skeptical of of all three.