Murdered Russian ex-spy Litvinenko passed documents to former Yukos CEO in Israel

Debka ^ | 11/25/06 | Debka

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Murdered Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko passed documents to former Yukos CEO in Israel months before his death - report

November 25, 2006, 9:10 AM (GMT+02:00)

Leonid Nevzlin, former CEO of the oil giant and current chairman of the Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv, says the former Russian spy came to Israel with classified documents on Yukos which may be damaging to Russian leaders. Nevzliln estimates that Litvinenko’s death was connected with this information, which he has handed to London police investigators of the murder.

DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources add that the Russian ex-spy is believed to have been a double agent, who sold trade secrets to different parties in and outside Russia, among them some of the Russian oligarchs living in exile in the West. Livinenko served as a colonel in a Russian Federal Security Services unit which investigated and carried out special operations against businessmen.

British police found traces of the radioactive Polonium 210 in Litvinenko’s urine.

The London media accuse Vladimir Putin of being behind the murder which they claim was politically-motivated.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

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[Williams]

Was just reading a story that police are investigating this as a possible suicide. That was also one of my first thoughts.

[the invisib1e hand]

Debka...sigh.

Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised to learn of a Yukos connection. It seems to be the Flagship in the new fleet of stealth communism russia is launching.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

The Independent UK ran a report this morning that Livinenko may have poisoned himself to discredit Putin.

Incredible?

[SauronOfMordor]

Sure, looks like suicide to me too. Hell, anybody can get polonium-210 at Walmart. They had a Black Friday special on it this weekend

[Gideon Reader]

Yeah.
Polonium X20, or whatever, was his second choice of a means for implicating Pooty Poot (of good heart and soul fame) and the ***ALL NEW AND IMPROVED KGB***.
(protectors of the Rodina, may piss be upon them)

The first choice was duct taping his mouth, hands and feet,shooting himself in the back of the head twice, disposing of the silenced pistol, and placing his own body in the trunk of a rental car and leaving it at the airport.
The drawback to that was he did not have a valid drivers license and would not be rented a car. :~)

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Ping . . .

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[spanalot]

no - suicide is genetic to the enemies of the kremlin.

it happened to 100 million in the last century alone.

http://cybercossack.com/?p=533#comments

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Ha ha. I see we agree that Livinenko took the easier route, going with the poison option!

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Thank you for your links. You're an ace at show and tell. :)

[M. Espinola]

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In terms of the subject material the London media is on the correct track relating to this assassination.

"The London media accuse Vladimir Putin of being behind the murder which they claim was politically-motivated."

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[1234]

FINALLY, a new newstory on a slow sun..

[irish guard]

Debka or not, there's an awful lot of smoke around this guy's death.

[cricket]

Was just reading a story that police are investigating this as a possible suicide. That was also one of my first thoughts.

No doubt, more than a few scenarios to be floated - so as to dilute the truth of the matter - which we may never know; in fact.

That said, do not believe it was suicide; and personally give this man credibility on his death bed in that he knew who killed him and said as much.

You can take the man out of the KGB; but not the KGB out of the man; and this is how I view Putin. . .and all this, just another warning of many. . .as to whom we can trust in the world.

The numbers of which of few, indeed. . .

[cricket]

lol!. . .and yes, a likely scenario for a swift death. And one he no doubt regretted, not taking. . .

But if he had it to do over. . .

[rxgalfl]

What's the big mystery? Putin is former KGB and will always be the slime ball he proved himself to be while he was a communist! Now he calls himself a democratically elected leader...my foot. Russia is plagued by it's former KGB officers more so than any other Warsaw Pact country. Litvinenko was no angel, he was just as bad as the Kremlin crowd, he just switched parties and he paid for it. His switch was not directed by some altruistic and humanitarian reason, it was money and survival...but he clearly chose wrong!

[cricket]

The Independent UK ran a report this morning that Livinenko may have poisoned himself to discredit Putin. Incredible/

Their way of making nice. . .'to Russia, with love'. ..so to speak.

[CottShop]

big report today that Levinken confessed to being ordered to kill people, to hire hitmen, to jail people who dissented against Putin & to hire hitmen whom the russian government or anyone in power owed large sums of money to. http://sacredscoop.com

[cricket]

His switch was not directed by some altruistic and humanitarian reason, it was money and survival.

. . .I am wondering where you got this up-close and personal, truly 'inside story' from?

That aside; am on to Amazon to check availability of his book. . .hope it is still out there; and in English as well. ..surely. . .