Epstein Secrets

y resulted in accidently compromising Poteyev. When Chap- man returned to Moscow after a spy exchange, she was taken to a well-publicized dinner with Putin. Afterward, she informed her debriefer at the SVR that only Poteyev had been in a position to know the password that an FBI agent had used to try to

| | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019707 CHAPTER 21 The Russians Are Coming The collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. —VLADIMIR PUTIN I THE FIRST INVASION of a European country since the end of the Cold War, Russian military forces moved into the Crimea and other parts of eastern U

m- ably, this relationship further deepened under President Putin’s regime. Putin asserted in speeches in 2014 that

s a major geopolitical disaster of the century. —VLADIMIR PUTIN I THE FIRST INVASION of a European country

f the former KGB officer | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.indd 265 @ 9/30/16 8:13AM | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019753 266 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS Alexander Litvinenko, I had interviewed Andrei Lugovoy. A former KGB officer assigned to protecting the Kremlin’s top members in the 1990s, Lugovoy later opened his own s

ion government. He will also meet with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia just days after the Obama adm

election in Greece, which gave the pro- bailout party a slim victory and the right to form a coalition government. He will also meet with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia just days after the Obama administration accused Moscow of supplying arms to Syria in its bloody crackdown on the uprising there. Just a

after the Obama administration accused Moscow of supplying arms to Syria in its bloody crackdown on the uprising there. Just as Mr. Obama and Mr. Putin meet for the first time as presidents, their underlings will sit down in Moscow for the latest round of talks with Iran that are intended to curb T

oss of the Yukos oil company, the killing of Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer working for William Browder, a foreign investor, or the murder in London of Alexander Litvinenko, a former security official. In cases like these it is right to try to identify the individuals involved so as to deny them visas and freeze their

.=tml The Death of Boris Berezovsky By Edward Jay Epstein On March 23, 2013, Boris Berezovsky, the once powerful Russian oligarch =ho helped bring Vladimir Put to power, was found dead in home in =scot, England, an as yet "unexplained death," according to British =uthorities. Some seven years earlier, on J

ain. =erezovsky's stated goal was to overthrow the Putin regime, explaining =n a 2007 interview with The Guardian,"It isn't possible to change this =Putinj regime through democratic means. There can be no change without =orce, pressure." Asked by the reporter if he was effectively fomenting = revolution

e once powerful Russian oligarch =ho helped bring Vladimir Put to power, was found dead in home in =scot, E

the center of the room was an ice sculpture representing =t. Basil's Cathedral on Red Square, coated with mounds of belugi =aviar. At one table was Alexander Litvinenko, Andrei Lugovoi, and =khmed Zakayev. They all had been born in the former Soviet Union and =hey had all been in prison, and, under Berezovsky's aegi

vsky in his obsessive =ampaign against President Vladimir Putin, died on 23 November 2006, =fter ingesting

rmer KGB officer who had fled Russia for Britain to =upport the exiled Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky in his obsessive =ampaign against President Vladimir Putin, died on 23 November 2006, =fter ingesting a lethal does of a rare radioactive isotope, =olonium-210. On his deathbed he claimed to have been admini

November 2006, =fter ingesting a lethal does of a rare radioactive isotope, =olonium-210. On his deathbed he claimed to have been administered it =n Putin's orders by a former KGB colleague, Anatoli Lugovoi. Britain =emanded Lugovoi's extradition to face a charge of murder, but Russia =efused, and Bri

ion =nd execution. While acknowledging this, Epstein comes nevertheless to =he conclusion that the death in London in 2006 of the former KGB =fficer Alexander Litvinenko was not the consequence of a murder. Litvinenko, a former KGB officer who had fled Russia for Britain to =upport the exiled Russian oligarch Boris B

appreciated. Lugovoy was elected to the Duma in 2008, and also hosted a 24 part television series espionage for which he was personally decorated by Putin. He was also now reputed to be in the inner circle of power in Moscow. So I called him. We arranged to meet in the lobby bar of the National Hotel.

ss to either Kucherena or Snowden. But I had another contact in Moscow. When I had been investigating the 2006 Polonitum poisoning of ex-KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko in London, I had interviewed a number of people in Moscow, including Andrei Lugovoy. A former KGB officer assigned to protecting the Kremlin’s top me