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Spy Poisoning

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1.   Dec 10, 2006 12:22 PM

» dantilles - Spy Poisoning

In response to Spy Poisoning posted by Slavophile:


I agree that it seems like a rather complicated way to kill someone and one which risks a lot of collateral damage. Surely there are simpler poisons to use or many other quicker and less obvious ways of killing someone (and ones which would attract less press attention). This raises the prospect that either someone was trying to send a message (i.e. if you mess with us then it's going to be a slow, painful death) or that perhaps someone anti-Putin wanted an attention-grabbing stunt to discredit him.

I was reading in an English newspaper recently though that in the 1950s the Soviets attempted to kill a Russian spy who had defected to the West using radioactive polonium. So apparently this rather messy method has been used before.

-- posted by dantilles


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