Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko (Russian: 30 August 1962 (4 December 1962 by father's account), 23 November 2006) was an officer who served in the Soviet KGB and its Russian successor, the Federal Security Service
(FSB).
In November 1998, Litvinenko and several other FSB officers
publicly accused their superiors of ordering the assassination of
Russian tycoon and oligarch Boris Berezovsky.
Litvinenko was arrested the following March on charges of exceeding the
authority of his position. He was acquitted in November 1999 but
re-arrested before the charges were again dismissed in 2000.
He fled
with his family to London and was granted asylum in the United Kingdom, where he became a journalist and writer and worked as a consultant for the British intelligence services MI6 and MI5.
During his time in London Litvinenko wrote two books, Blowing Up Russia: Terror from Within and Lubyanka Criminal Group, wherein he accused Russian secret services of staging the Russian apartment bombings and other terrorism acts in an effort to bring Vladimir Putin to power. He also accused Putin of ordering the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
On 1 November 2006 Litvinenko suddenly fell ill and was hospitalised in what was established as a case of poisoning by radioactive polonium-210 which resulted in his death on 23 November.
Armenian parliament shooting
Main article: 1999 Armenian parliament shooting
Litvinenko accused the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General-Staff of the Russian armed forces had organised the 1999 Armenian parliament shooting that killed Prime Minister of Armenia Vazgen Sargsyan and seven members of parliament, ostensibly to derail the peace process which would have resolved the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, but he offered no evidence to support the accusation.
Russian apartment bombings
Main article: Russian apartment bombings
Litvinenko alleged that agents from the FSB coordinated the 1999 Russian apartment bombings that killed more than 300 people, whereas Russian officials blamed the explosions on Chechen separatists. This version of events was suggested earlier by David Satter,
Moscow theatre hostage crisis
Litvinenko claimed that two of the Chechen terrorists involved in the 2002 Moscow theatre siege —
whom he named as "Abdul the Bloody" and "Abu Bakar" — were working for
the FSB, and that the agency manipulated the rebels into staging the
attack.Litvinenko said: "[w]hen they tried to find [Abdul the Bloody and Abu
Bakar] among the dead terrorists, they weren't there. The FSB got its
agents out. So the FSB agents among Chechens organized the whole thing
on FSB orders, and those agents were released."
Beslan school hostage crisis
Main article: Beslan school hostage crisis#Conspiracy Theories
Alexander Litvinenko suggested in September 2004 that the Russian
secret services must have been aware of the plot beforehand, and
therefore that they must have themselves organized the attack as a false flag operation.
The Beslan school hostage crisis (also referred to as the Beslan school siege or Beslan massacre of early September 2004 lasted three days and involved the capture of over 1,100 people as hostages (including 777 children), ending with the death of over 380 people.
Beslan school hostage crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Support of terrorism worldwide by the KGB and FSB
Litvinenko stated that "all the bloodiest terrorists of the world" were connected to FSB-KGB, including Carlos "The Jackal" Ramírez, Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, Abdullah Öcalan, Wadie Haddad of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, George Hawi who led the Communist Party of Lebanon, Ezekias Papaioannou from Cyprus, Sean Garland
from Ireland and many others." He says that all of them were trained,
funded, and provided with weapons, explosives and counterfeit documents
in order to carry out terrorist attacks worldwide and that each act of
terrorism made by these people was carried out according to the task and
under the rigid control of the KGB of the USSR.
Alleged Russia-al-Qaeda connection
In a July 2005 interview with the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita, Litvinenko alleged that Ayman al-Zawahiri, a prominent leader of al-Qaeda, was trained for half of a year by the FSB in Dagestan in 1997 and called him "an old agent of the FSB".
Assassination of Anna Politkovskaya
Main article: Anna Politkovskaya assassination
Two weeks before his poisoning, Alexander Litvinenko accused Vladimir Putin of ordering the assassination of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya and stated that a former presidential candidate Irina Hakamada warned Politkovskaya about threats to her life coming from the Russian president.
Other allegations
In his book Gang from Lubyanka, Litvinenko alleged that Vladimir Putin during his time at the FSB was personally involved in protecting the drug trafficking from Afghanistan organized by Abdul Rashid Dostum.In December 2003 Russian authorities confiscated over 4000 copies of the book.
Alexander Litvinenko - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Assassination of Russia (Blowing up Russia) HQ
Documentary film describes the September 1999 Russian apartment bombings
as a terrorism act committed by Russian state security services.
Written and directed by Yuri Felshtinsky and Alexander Litvinenko. "We
just cannot go out and say that the president of Russia is a mass
murderer. But it is important that we know it."
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