May 23, 2007

The April 1998 Video

Video Shows Russian Spy Litvinenko Saying Bosses Ordered Killings, Kidnappings The Voice of America, reports that a Russian talk-show host has released a video, recorded in 1998 outside Moscow, that shows three Russian security agents describing how their bosses had ordered them to kill, kidnap and frame prominent Russians. On the video, seen by Western journalists, the Federal Security Service officers, including the late Alexander Litvinenko, said the video was only to be released if something happened to one of them. Spy-turned-Kremlin critic Litvinenko is now dead.

New Footage Of Litvinenko Released SkyNews has excerpts of the original interview April 20, 1998.

Videotape Shows Litvinenko Feared Retribution The Moscow Times, Jim Heintz reports that journalist Sergi Dorenko conducted the interview with Alexander Litvinenko, Alexander Gusak and Andrei Ponkin, all Federal Security Services (FSS) Agents, late one night in April 1998, at a guest house outside Moscow. The extraordinary video includes claims that their bosses had ordered them to kill, kidnap and frame prominent Russians.

Litvinenko feared for life before poisoning The Globeandmail, Jim Heintz, further describes the circumstances regarding the release of the videotape.

Litvinenko Knew He Was Marked Man SkyNews provides links to the video and translated scripts of the three FSS Agents.

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