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In late November 2006 the whole world was shaken by a ruthless assassination in London of former lieutenant colonel of the FSB (the Russian security service and a successor to the KGB) and British citizen Alexander Litvinenko. This has been the most notorious crime in the past 30 years committed by Russian intelligence on foreign soil. Former Russian military intelligence officer and international expert in special operations Boris Volodarsky shows how the Russian poisoning operations started with Lenin and his Cheka, the predecessor of the KGB with intelligence operatives creating poisons and delivery methods as well as planning and carrying out poisoning operations all over the world in order to eliminate the enemies of the Kremlin.
- Sales Rank: #1025092 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Zenith Press
- Published on: 2010-02-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.06" w x 6.00" l, 1.40 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 256 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
Review
"Here, for the fan of murder thrillers and modern history alike, is a cracking good read. In brilliant light we see what lay for nearly a century behind the London polonium poisoning of British citizen Alexander Litvinenko, former Russian. With original research guided by his insider's eye and scholarly care, Boris Volodarsky recounts scores of murders. Assassination emerges as state policy, as institutionalized bureacracy, as day-to-day routine, as laboratory science, as a branch of medicine researching ways not to stave off death but to deliver it in apparently innocent or accidental forms, and as engineering technology, devising ever-new devices to meet each new requirement, from umbrella tips and cigarette cases and rolled-up newspapers -- to Litvinenko's teacup." Tennent H. Bagley, former CIA chief of Soviet Bloc counterintelligence.
Library Journal
In September 2004, Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned by dioxin, which caused severe illness and disfigurement. In October 2006, journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a critic of President Vladimir Putin and his handling of the Chechen conflict, was shot to death in Moscow. In November 2006, former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned by polonium-210 and died after several days of agony. Litvinenko was known for publicly alleging that the Russian government was behind numerous acts of terrorism against its own people, including Politkovskaya's murder. These stories are familiar to most who follow international news. What many people do not know is that this type of assassination has a long history extending through Soviet regimes as far back as Lenin. Volodarsky, a former KGB officer himself, provides evidence that eliminating enemies by poisoning or other means is still business as usual in Russia, despite the political changes of the past two decades…[The KGB’s Poison Factory] will fascinate students as well as general readers interested in international espionage.
About the Author
Boris Volodarsky is a former captain of the GRU Spetsnaz and currently an independent intelligence analyst, a member of the World Association of International Studies (Hoover Institution, Stanford University) and has written a number of articles on intelligence for the Wall Street Journal. He lives in England.
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13 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
Pretentious & Vacuous
By Sonechka
"Groundbreaking study" - "Full Details of Litvinentko Murder" - "Nothing of this sort has ever been published." These adulatory blurbs are not citations from actual book reviews. In fact they are so out of line with the reality of the book that I suspect they were written by the author. I would also bet that Zenith is a well-disguised vanity press. The book imitates the dramatic style of startling revelations by genuine investigative journalism, but does not offer substantive new information on the Litvinenko murder or the murderous history of the KGB. What you will find is a massive jumble of details presented with no effort by the author to select or distinguish what is relevant from what is irrelevant. Insight? There isn't any. Regarding Litvinenko in particular, nothing new is offered in the book that wasn't already stated in Volodarsky's article published the day after Litvinenko's death, in the St. Petersburg Times on 11/24/06. I confess to not providing an illustration in this review of the book's alleged faults, because it would be exceedingly laborious to quote and analyze sample globs of text. There is nothing to be gained from it, e.g. separating the wheat from the chaff, because it seems all chaff. I wrote this short-cut review to save others from buying the book based on the blurbs. Alas, I naively took them seriously, but the punch-line is that no one seems to be buying the book anyway. P.S. The other review was written by the author after being offended by mine. I doubt that he will confess.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Diferential diagnosis for dissidents and defectors
By Arete-Zoe
This book is a must read for everyone who does not believe in accidental deaths of high-profile enemies of the Russian state, and wants to become more familiar with characteristic signature of KGB murders by poisoning. All presented cases were killings committed by the KGB (or FSB) on direct order of the president. The book presents in detail some of the most ill-famous KGB poisonings abroad.
All cases presented in this book provide detailed description of methods used by the perpetrators to mask the symptoms and make the murder look like natural death. As pointed out, the best murder looks like a heart attack.
Special attention is paid to the two known cases of poisoning by custom-made KGB radioactive weapon in people who lived long enough to tell the tale: the fatal case of polonium 210 poisoning as used in the case of Alexander Litvinenko in October/November 2006, and thallium poisoning as used for Nikolai Khokhlov in September 1957. Khokhlov was a trained assassin and turned himself in when he was sent to kill Russian émigré G.S. Okolovich in Frankfurt am Main in 1943. His next operation was conducted under direct supervision of the FBI.
What is interesting about the Khokhlov case is the way he was trained back in the POW camp in order to get a new identity of a fellow prisoner (page 165). In 1957, when Khokhlov got ill with an unknown condition, his life was saved by U.S. Army medical facility which correctly identified the cause as thallium poisoning. This can be compared to the confusion and apparent inability to establish correct diagnosis by British doctors in 2006 in the Litvinenko's case. This time, the Americans did not get involved, as this murder did not formally belong to the jurisdiction of the USA, and Litvinenko never worked for them. Litvinenko's key work includes book "Blowing Up Russia", which documents how FSB is responsible for the series of bombings of the apartment buildings, rather than the Chechen terrorists. Litvinenko's death came just a few weeks after the murder of Anna Politkovskaya. Her poisoning on the flight to Chechnya during the Beslan crisis is briefly discussed as part of the Litvinenko case.
Dioxin used in the poisoning of Ukrainian presidential candidate Victor Yushchenko in September 2004 was a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge as well. Should he stayed in Ukrainian hospital Feofania, his chances of survival would be very slim, because doctors were practically barred from attending the sick man, and those who still attempted to help, were either threatened or fired from their jobs (page 102). Chervonenko, Alexander Tretyakov, and Yushchenko's American-born wife made a quick and sound decision to fly Yushchenko to a private hospital in Vienna, Austria. At that time, the most prominent symptoms were acute pancreatitis, severe inflammation and ulceration of gastrointestinal tract, and atypical skin disease. Doctor Nikolai Korpan, who first came with the theory that his patient was poisoned, had to face tough questioning and his immigration status and professional credentials were seriously challenged. He was right, and the toxicological analysis fully confirmed dioxin poisoning. State Department refused to get involved.
In May 1962, 24-year-old Lt Lapusnyik defected from Hungary to Austria and turned himself in to the Austrian police. He was placed in detention for questioning, and described loopholes in Iron Curtain and provided valuable information about the functioning of the Hungarian Ministry of Interior. In June 1962, he died of a brain hemorrhage. The author's estimate is that the substance to blame was DMS (dimethyl-sulphate). Austrian authorities decided to turn blind eye to this obvious murder. At that time, Austrian security forces were heavily penetrated by Russian and their satellites' agents; and the total number of intelligence officers (declared) in Vienna and Salzburg outnumbered US and UK stations combined.
The death of Soviet Naval officer Nikolai Artamonov (Shadrin/Lark) in 1975 was an accident, as the chloroform used to stuff him in the KGB car was not meant to kill him. He was supposed to be brought to Moscow for questioning. Lark was smuggled over Czech border through one of the loopholes described by Lapusnyik, and died of asphyxiation. This case is interesting for two reasons - the substitute of Colonel Kuryshev 1 who disappeared with Lark over the Czech border, and Kuryshev 2, who continued to serve in Vienna (in other words, identity fraud). Artmanov was closely working with the KGB under American control, and was disposed off on neutral territory.
Another interesting case presented here is assassin Bogdan Stashinsky, who was recruited by the KGB after he got caught on train without a ticket. In 1957, he was ordered to kill Rebet for his work "The Theory of Nations" by poisonous gas (cyanide) shot straight in the victim's face. Three days later, he killed exactly the same way Ukrainian nationalist leader Stephan Bandera. There is an interesting paragraph about kill conditioning on page 185. Stashinsky was tried in court for his crimes, got 8 years, and was resettled in a third country. On Oct 19, 1962, the High Court judge ruled that the Soviet government in Moscow was guilty of all political assassinations. It would be great if this much attention was paid to resettlement of victims.
In Russia, assassinations are still a way how to dispose of politically undesirable émigrés and defectors. The book is not an easy read, but it is worth the time. It is thoroughly researched and backed up by solid evidence.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Interesting book - recommended for espionage afacionados
By S. Uehlinger
A good read. Although due to its somewhat "choppy" style, I would recommend it for well-read espionage aficionados - who already know the basic structure of the KGB/FSB, etc. I particularly liked the summary of Putin's ascent to power starting in St Petersburg (toward the back of the book). I also appreciated the chapters on Khokhlov - a fascinating case, altho apparently Brooke-Shepherd's work attributes more to K. - Volodarsky likens him to a mere assistant. I look foward to the author's next work.
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