The KGB's Poison Factory: From Lenin to Litvinenko

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Prologue; The Funeral; Georgi Markov, London, September 1978; The KGB's Poison Factory; Those were the days; Litvinenko: Operation VLADIMIR, Part I; Victor Yushchenko, the Ukrainian Patient, Kiev, September 2004; Béla Lapusnyik, the victim, Vienna, May 1962; Nikolai Artamonov, the triple agent, Vienna, December 1975; Litvinenko: Operation VLADIMIR, Part II; Nikolai Khokhlov, the illegal, Germany, 1954-7; Bogdan Stashinsky, the assassin, Germany, 1957-9; Litvinenko: Operation VLADIMIR, Part III.;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 Litvinenko's 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.