Russian ex-spy may have ingested radioactive poison
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A former Russian spy fighting for his life in a British hospital may have been given poison in a radioactive form to render it more lethal, the toxicologist treating him said on Tuesday.
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A former Russian spy was buried Thursday in a sealed coffin to prevent further contamination by the radioactive substance that killed him. But whoever poisoned Alexander Litvinenko with polonium-210 appears to have left a lengthening trail of victims.
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Traces of radioactivity were found on planes that flew to Moscow days before a former Russian K.G.B. agent fell ill.
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A Russian linked to a probe into the radiation poisoning of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko said he had been contaminated by the former agent in London weeks before the latter fell fatally ill.
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Whoever poisoned Alexander Litvinenko with polonium 210 presumably had access to a high-level nuclear laboratory and put himself at some risk carrying out the assassination, experts said.
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MOSCOW, Dec. 8 -- A Russian businessman who met with a former Russian domestic intelligence officer in London the day the man fell ill from radioactive poison has himself become suddenly and seriously sick, Russian news organizations reported Thursday night.
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LONDON -- The FBI is joining the British probe into the poisoning death of a Kremlin critic, the agency announced yesterday as investigators found traces of radiation at a dozen sites in Britain and a Russian former prime minister reported symptoms consistent with poisoning.
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British health experts investigating the cause of death of a former Russian spy from suspected poisoning said on Friday they had found large quantities of a highly toxic radioactive isotope on his body.
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A poisoned former Russian spy suffered heart failure and is on a ventilator, a friend said Thursday morning.
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LONDON/ROME  - An Italian contact of poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko said he believed both were targeted with a radioactive substance because of secrets they shared.
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Police found radioactive traces in the office of Boris Berezovsky, an associate of the Russian agent who was allegedly poisoned by radiation.
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Traces of the rare radioactive substance polonium-210 were found at a German apartment visited by a contact of fatally poisoned ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko &#151; before the two men met in London, authorities said Sunday.
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LONDON -- A former KGB agent turned Kremlin critic who was poisoned three weeks ago was moved into intensive care yesterday after his condition deteriorated, and his doctor said the toxin has attacked his bone marrow.
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An Italian contact of poisoned  former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko said he believed both  were targeted with a radioactive substance because of secrets  they shared.
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Doctors are still trying to determine how a former Russian spy and prominent Kremlin critic was poisoned, but they have discounted suspicions that the toxic metal thallium was used, hospital officials said Tuesday.
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A contact of the poisoned ex-intelligence agent Alexander Litvinenko is seriously ill with radiation sickness and has briefly been in a coma, a medical source said as an investigation into the mystery broadened.
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The Russian ex-agent was poisoned after obtaining information for a UK firm, says an ex-associate.