ome polonium in the past. Another question is: Why is all of this coming out now, eight years after Arafat's death and six years after the death of Alexander Litvinenko, the former KGB agent and Kremlin opponent, who became the first well- known victim of a polonium poisoning attack? The Search for the Truth Suha

arched for at a laboratory, explaining why nobody noticed it back in 2004. Two years after Arafat's death, Russian dissident and former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko was murdered in London by Russian agents using this same poison. It took him three weeks to die from polonium. As in Arafat's case, his doctors at

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

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

rched for at a laboratory, explaining why nobody noticed it back in 2004. Two years after Arafat's death, Russian dissident and former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko was murdered in London by Russian agents using this same poison. It took him three weeks to die from polonium. As in Arafat's case, his doctors at

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

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

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