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There is a great deal of intrigue, speculation and facts in the media. In this post, I will try to provide a characterization of this work, research and opinion.

Symposium: From Russia With Death Jamie Glazov, FrontPageMagazine, assembled a distinuished panel of scholars, historians and former Soviets, including: Oleg Kalugin, Richard Pipes, Vladimir Bukovsky, Jim Woolsey, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, David Satter, Yuri Yarim-Agaev, and Andrei Piontkovsky. This is a unique perspective on the Litvinenko assination.

KGB Former Agent Gordievsky Speaks of Litvinenko’s Killer Russia's Daily Online, Kommersant, reports that Scotland Yard is looking for an individual, described as a professional killer, who arrived, and left London, November 1, 2006, using three forged passports.

Quid Pro Quo in Litvinenko Probe David Nowak, The Moscow Times, describes negotiations between British detectives and Russain authorities, regarding accessibility to interview Boris Berezovsky and Akhmed Zakayev in London and Andrei Lugovoi, Dmitry Kovtum and Vyacheslav Sokolenko in Moscow.

Litvinenko And Russian Oil? The Strata-Sphere, A. J. Strata speculates why the Russian Oligarchs want President Putin out of office before 2008. Strata makes the analogy between YUKOS and ENRON, describing the governments’ prosecution strategy of getting the small fry to turn evidence on the higher ups in a classic law enforcement pincer move.

Litvinenko And Scaramella. Or Should That Read ‘Scammerama’? Atlantic Free Press, article by Copy Dude, compares Mario Scaramella (the consummate con man) with Alexander Litvinenko (the dirt-peddler de-luxe). Copy Dude provides links, connecting Scaramella and Litvinenko with the Mitrokhin Commission, Romano Prodi, and Yevgeny Limarev.

Another dead Russian Larisa Alexandrovna, in her blog at-Largely, announces that she is “officially off of the Litvinenko case.” She concludes by describing the coincidence-conspiracy scenario, chronologically linking the assignations of Anna Politkovskaya (10/07/2006), Igor Ponomarev (10/30/2006), Alexander Litvinenko (11/23/2006) and Yuri Golubev (01/07/2007).

Russia Under Terror Threat - Is This The Reason For Po-210? A.J. Strata, Strata-Sphere, reports on information Russia has received from foreign sources, regarding terrorists’ plans to strike a Russian transportation system. Strata describes a scenario where the supply of Polonium-210, used to kill Alexander Litvinenko, which has a half-life of 138.39 days, is rapidly deteriorating, and may be used by the Chechen terrorists as a nuclear dirty bomb.

The Secret Life of Mario Scaramella, What a bit player in the case of the radioactive Russian tells us about Berlusconi's Italy. Slate Magazine’s Alexander Stille, develops a colorful biography for Mario Scaramella, concluding that the Litvinenko-Scaramella connection offers, along with a glimpse at the murky world of former Soviet spies, is a picture of Berlusconi's Italy, in which bogus scandals are manufactured in order to distract attention from real issues.

Who Killed Alexander Litvinenko? A Real-Life Deadly Spy Mystery CBS 60 Minutes Bob Simon provides a major news story on a “Real-Life Deadly Spy Mystery”. The article includes video links to the original news story.