Interesting Video Twist in the Case of the Murdered Spy
In April of 1998 a video was made by three Federal Security agents claiming that they had been given orders to kidnap, kill and frame some prominent Russians. They said they were making the tape to insure that if something happened to them the truth would be known.
One of those agents was Alexander Litvinenko who is now dead – murdered by radiation poisoning. The police in Great Britain have recently arrested another former agent, Andrei Lugovoi for the killing. He denies it, saying the arrest is politically motivated.
In the video recording, the agents discuss the violence and immoral behavior that had taken over the Federal Security Bureau and how disgusted they were by it. Six months later Litvinenko was at a news conference where the same accusations were repeated including the claim that he was ordered to kill Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky.
In the newly released tape, Litvinenko says that he was told to plant a weapon on or beat up Mikhail Trepashkin who ended up being jailed for disclosing state secrets. He was arrested in 2003 after police found a weapon in his car and has been in prison ever since.
Litvinenko who was dressed casually with a full head of thick hair in the interview admits to being worried about appearing on TV but had decided the time had come to tell the truth about what was going on.
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