Scaramella: I warned poisoned spy
627686
Contaminated by the same radioactive material that killed former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko, Italian security consultant Mario Scaramella says he tried to warn the ex-spy. In an exclusive interview with CNN, Scaramella talked of e-mails full of details of how the two men were being targeted.
449262
Scotland Yard officers threatened a former policeman with prosecution under the Official Secrets Act if he divulged what he knew about a covert operation in which an MP's conversations were bugged, the Guardian has learned
422703
Mario Scaramella, who met with ex Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko on the day he fell ill, said he had five times the amount of the radioactive substance polonium considered deadly in his body, as British police officers prepared to travel to Russia to continue their inquiry.
118761
A former Russian spy may have been poisoned with radioactive thallium, the toxicologist treating him has said, after British counter-terrorism police took over the probe into what happened to him.
283789
Dmitry Kovtun, a contact of poisoned  Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, is suffering from acute  radiation poisoning, Interfax news agency said on Friday,  citing his medical notes.
456843
To subscribe to The Register's weekly newsletter - seven days of IT in a single hit - click here Yes, thereâs only been story in the news this week. Rogue Russian agents have apparently been racing around the UK, knocking off ex-KGB spies, and endangering sushi chefs, flight attendants and Italian Academics, using rare radioactive isotopes. The fact that it was Polonium 210 that was used to permanently shut-up former KGB man Alexander Litvinenko was taken as proof of Russian state involvement. Only past poison experts such as the KGB had access to such a devastating material, it was reasoned. Well, only them and anyone with a web connection, a credit card and the web address for United Nuclear. So, beware come office party season. If the cocktails look a little more lurid than usual, someone may well be settling scores.â¦
19148
An former KGB agent poisoned in London described in interviews before his death how he was ordered to hire assassins to neutralize potential rivals and whistle-blowers who threatened the Kremlin, according to excerpts published on Saturday.
151550
An Italian contact of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, killed by radioactive poisoning in London, alleged that the Kremlin had ordered his death because he knew too much.
490038
British police are working out how former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko might have been poisoned with a highly toxic radioactive substance, and who could be behind it.
104157
A rare radioactive substance killed an ex-KGB spy turned Kremlin critic, the British government said Friday. In a dramatic statement written before he died, the man called Russian President Vladimir Putin "barbaric and ruthless" and blamed him personally for the poisoning.
93474
An Italian academic who met a former Russian spy on the day he fell ill with suspected poisoning was under police guard in London as more people were tested for possible radiation exposure.
729147
The barman who served tea to murdered former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko has told The Sunday Telegraph that he was distracted while an assassin allegedly sprayed deadly poison into the drink.
136187
A Russian dissident may have been poisoned in the UK with a radioactive substance, says an expert toxicologist.
466708
British scientists probing the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko said on Friday a second man had been poisoned by radiation.
747668
A former Russian spy and fierce Kremlin critic who is fighting for his life in a London hospital may have been given another poison in addition to thallium, perhaps a radioactive substance, a doctor said Tuesday.
175826
Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned in London three weeks ago, died on Thursday, the hospital treating him said.
126865
British scientists probing the death of Alexander Litvinenko said on Friday a second man had been poisoned by the same radiation that killed the former Russian spy.