Russian agent claims hired by Britain through Litvinenko
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A former Russian secret service agent claimed that he was recruited by British intelligence through Alexander Litvinenko, the agent murdered last year, in a Russian television interview aired on Friday.
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Russian authorities charge a man with spying for Britain - the latest step in an espionage row between the two countries.
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The chief suspect in the murder of  Russian exile Alexander Litvinenko paid a previously unreported  visit to London in the weeks before his poisoning with  radioactive polonium, a witness in the case told Reuters.
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Andrei Lugovoi, suspected of killing ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, says Britain's secret service tried to recruit him.
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The chief suspect in the murder of Russian exile Alexander Litvinenko paid a previously unreported visit to London in the weeks before his poisoning with radioactive polonium, a witness in the case told Reuters.
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Russia accuses UK of seeking confrontation over Litvinenko case, but stops short of immediate tit-for-tat expulsion of diplomats.
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LONDON -- Before Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian intelligence agent fatally poisoned in London last year, sought asylum in Britain, he first tried to flee to the United States, according to a new book that also offers fresh details of his uneasy life and relationship with the former KGB ...
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A contact of ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko is to meet UK investigators, an associate has told the BBC.
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Russian detectives are to be allowed to come to Britain as part of their investigation into the radiation poisoning death of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, according to The Observer newspaper.
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A former KGB agent who passed Soviet secrets to Britain during the Cold War received a top award from Queen Elizabeth II Thursday.
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Britain's senior law enforcement official said Sunday an inquiry into the death of a former KGB agent had expanded overseas, and a U.S.-based friend of the former agent said he told police the name of the person he believes orchestrated the poisoning.
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Russia's security agency on Friday announced an espionage investigation based on statements by the suspect in Andrei Litvinenko's radiation poisoning, a move apparently targeting a Kremlin foe in Britain.
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Britain is using the murder of Alexander Litvinenko to start a "political campaign", Russia's foreign minister says.
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British police, in Moscow as part of  their probe into the Litvinenko poisoning, seemed set to see  star witness, ex-KGB agent Andrei Lugovoy, on Wednesday, one of  his associates said.
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Britain's beleaguered Home Secretary David Blunkett, who faces an inquiry into claims he fast-tracked a British visa for his lover's nanny, also allegedly helped the nanny get a visa to travel abroad, according to a newspaper report.
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"Under the constitution of the Russian Federation, Russian citizens cannot be handed over to foreign countries for prosecution and Lugovoy appears to be a Russian citizen."  By Mark Trevelyan and Peter GraffLONDON  - British prosecutors accused a former KGB agent on Tuesday of murdering dissident Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium and sought his extradition, throwing London and Moscow on to a diplomatic collision course.The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it wanted to bring suspect Andrei Lugovoy before a British court and charge him with the "extraordinarily grave crime" of murdering exiled Russian Litvinenko in London last November. Read more
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A British intelligence agency is seeking spies in cyberspace.