[aristeides]

Vladimir Pasechnik figures prominently in Ken Alibek's book Biohazard. Pasechnik's defection was a big blow to the Soviet biowarfare program. I doubt if it would explain a "stroke" at this late date, but apparently Soviet people would have loved to kill Pasechnik after his defection.

[muawiyah]

When Alibek defected that left 53,000 people "exposed". When he convinced the other guy to defect, that left the same 53,000 "unemployed" and without incomes in an economy which was collapsing. Besides that, the "program" was located in laboratories and other facilities far removed from the flesh pots of Moscow.

Do any of these 53,000 want to kill someone? - The question maybe ought to be to ask if any of them DON'T want to kill someone!