Friday, November 2, 2007

LITVINENKO WAS MI6 SPY DailyMail: "The former Russian spy poisoned in a London hotel was an MI6 agent, the Daily Mail can reveal. Alexander Litvinenko was receiving a retainer of around £2,000 a month from the British security services at the time he was murdered. The disclosure, by diplomatic and intelligence sources, is the latest twist in the Litvinenko affair, which has plunged relations between London and Moscow to their lowest point since the Cold War. Mr Litvinenko had defected to Britain in 2000 and was granted political asylum the following year with his wife Marina, 44, and son Anatoly, 12. It is understood that Sir John Scarlett, now the head of MI6 and once based in Moscow, was involved in recruiting him to the Secret Intelligence Service. The fact that the 43-year-old ex-Russian spy was actually working for Britain when he died could provide the key to his extraordinary killing." Litvinenko was an MI6 spy probably involved in nuclear trafficking, which would explain his contamination. ChristianScienceMonitor: "'Litvinenko's death was used as a pretext to begin a political provocation against Russia, to damage Russia's image,' says Viktor Alksnis, a nationalist deputy of the State Duma. 'The whole story smells bad.' Lugovoi has claimed in the past that Litvinenko and his sponsor, exiled anti-Kremlin tycoon Boris Berezovsky, were both agents of MI6. He has hinted that Litvinenko was actually killed by British intelligence as part of a dark plot to slander Putin and wreck Russia's relations with the West. Lugovoi further claimed that Mr. Berezovsky and Litvinenko had tried to recruit him for anti-Kremlin activities." 12:46:35 PM

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