What Did Litvinenko Know/Say/Do that Cost Him His Life?

Below are links to some of Alexander Litvinenko's work:
1. Litvinenko's Book: Blowing Up Russia: Terror From Within

2. FSB Involvement in the 1999 Russian Apartment Bombings

3. Russian Secret Services' Links With Al-Qaeda

4. Litvinenko's Video Interview , The Frontline Club, the Murder of Anna Politkovskaya

5. The Kremlin Pedophile

6. About "Nord-Ost", Zakayev and terrorist activity of FSB

7. Putin and the drug trade in Russia

8. Colonel Alexander Litvinenko Signed the Appeal for an Interim un Administration in Chechnya

9. Litvinenko's Book: Lubyanka Criminal Group

10. Backlight: In Memoriam Aleksander Litvinenko


Political Biography
1. In his book Blowing up Russia: Terror from Within, Litvinenko describes that he had established personal relations with Berezovsky during the investigation of the July 1994 attempt on the businessman.

2. Russian observers and the politicians close to the present Russian regime say that Litvinenko and his closest associates on service had been Berezovsky’s “agents of infulence” in the FSB.

3. The specified sources pointed out that Litvinenko and his comrades, in 1996-1998, tried to discredit a number of the high-ranking FSB officers, with an aim of their subsequent replacement by people, loyal to Berezovsky.

4. In the book Blowing up Russia: Terror from Within Litvinenko confirms that he collected compromising information on some high-ranking officers and tried to convey it to the top leadership, in particular, to Putin. But as he said, he did it for the sake of suppression of the criminal activity in the ranks of the FSB.

5. In November 1998, Litvinenko and four of his colleagues held an unprecedented press conference, having accused the FSB and their direct supervisors, of alleged practice of extrajudicial liquidations and physical pressure upon businessmen and political figures. They declared, in particular, that one year prior to that they had received an order on Berezovsky's elimination. Two years later, one of the closest fellows of Litvinenko and a participant of the abovementioned press conference, Viktor Shebalin, publicly announced that it had been “a planned-in-advance action of Litvinenko, under direction of Boris Berezovsky”.

6. In the autumn 2000, together with his family, Alexander Litvinenko secretly left Russia. Through Ukraine and Turkey, he arrived in England. In May 2001, Litvinenko was granted political asylum there and he was under trusteeship of the local law enforcement bodies.

7. In Britain, Litvinenko began an active propaganda campaign against the Russian leadership and the FSB. He accused Russia’s secret services of organizing the explosions in apartment houses in Moscow in the autumn 1999, and in ties with the Al-Qaeda, and also in the wide-range criminal activity, such as participation in the international Afghan drug traffic.

8. In 2001 the first book by Litvinenko (in the co-authorship) was published in the United States, under the title Blowing up Russia: Terror from Within.

9. In 2002, the second book by Litvinenko, Lubyanka’s Criminal Grouping, was published in the US.

10. Litvinenko often spoke that his life and the life of his relatives had been endangered. He told that the first attempt at him took place in December 1997 after he and his colleagues had refused to carry out the order on Boris Berezovsky's liquidation.

11. He said he knew of 32 Russian spies working in England.

12. He traveled to Israel weeks before he died to hand over a dossier on the Yukos oil affair, in which the company’s former chairman, Mikhail Khodorovsky, has been imprisoned for tax evasion, to Leonid Nevzlin, an exiled oil tycoon.

13. In Moscow, a city given to conspiracy theories, people could speak of little else: Putin had acted to silence a vocal traitor; no, Putin’s enemies did it, to destroy the image of the Kremlin and gain leverage in the 2008 Presidential campaign; Putin’s allies did it, so that they could use the affair as a convenient excuse to ignore the constitution and secure him a third term; the “Jews” did it, because Litvinenko had converted to Islam; Muslim extremists did it, because Litvinenko had reneged on a promise to supply parts for a dirty bomb; Berezovsky did it, to embarrass Putin. The Kremlin even suggested that Leonid Nevzlin, a wealthy oil executive who fled Russia and lives in Israel, might have been involved. The New Yorker, Kremlin, Inc, by Michael Specter.

14. Yuri Shvets, a former KGB agent now based in the United States, said he and Litvinenko had worked together providing confidential background information for international companies before possible investment in Russia. Shvets told the BBC his friend was poisoned after an eight-page dossier complied by Litvinenko, which allegedly contained sensitive material, was leaked to the unnamed figure in Moscow.

15. "At one point, Litvinenko's old boss, Maj. Gen. Yevgeny Khokholkov said, 'If I ever see him in my doorway, I will kill him with my own hands.' And he put his two hands together as if he was smashing the neck, as if it was a piece of pipe, or a baguette. And then he just said, 'I'm joking, of course.' But it was clear he was not joking. They hated him so much." as told by Yuri Felshtinsky. The Seattle Times

Opinions:
1. Alexander Litvinenko: Blackmailer, Smuggler, Gangster Extraordinaire by Antiwar.com Justin Raimondo

2. Yuri’s quest to uncover the truth lives on Anne Simpson, of The Herald, writes about Yuri Felshtinsky, a historian specializing in Russian secret services, who co-authored writing Blowing Up Russia: Terror from Within with Alexander Litvinenko.