correction: removed (exiled) from another exiled former kgb spy. (defective initial info.)

As I analyzed and came to the conclusion long before anyone else, there is now proof that Aleksandr Litvinenko, as the evidence shows, was slipped a poison in a teacup at the Millenium Hotel bar while distracted. Most likely, by someone he knew and trusted.

There has not been any official toxicology report released yet. I’m sure they know the results by now, or at least a partial result. I’m waiting for a full report to be released.

There is a much bigger picture to all of this than just the Litvinenko assassination. As incredible as it sounds, is one that most folks would never imagine.

This whole sad series of recent events is nothing new. It is just another chapter in a long running operation. Russian intelligence has been operating like this for many years now. And, they have been getting away with it, and no one, practically, has been on to it. “They’ve gotten away with it so far, and they will continue until they are stopped”.

These are very dangerous times we have been living in over the past decade. Sadly, it isn’t only a “we versus them” plot. It involves nationalities and personalities spanning the globe.

Russia considered Litvinenko a danger to security, to the future of Putin’s planning and legacy. Litvinenko was a loose end to that planning. One with some semblance of credibility, former knowledge and ability to gain knowledge (information).

I thought, when the announced primary poison used was Polonium 210, there would be a good possibility, the assassins could be contaminated either through direct or cross-contamination, that left a “hot” trail to follow.

Polonium 210 spreads relatively easy. In the contamination case of Italian Mr. Scaramella, it was relatively easy to see how he was contaminated. I suspect, when Litvinenko and him were passing papers back and forth to each other at the Sushi bar, this is when the contamination occurred, however, there could have been other incidental contact involved at that meeting also.

To explain further, the polonium 210 radiation may not be able to pass through paper, but can be transmitted through contaminated contact, simply by the infected touching an object, and then someone else touching that contaminated object. If someone other than the primary target would be internally contaminated, going to their food, drink, eyes or mouth with their contaminated hands or object is all it would have taken.

Scotland Yard has had a difficult time attempting to interview Mr. Lugovoy in Russia. This is no accident. I suspect, the Russian’s are trying to work themselves into a more positive framework before allowing him to be interviewed. But the trail leading back to Lugovoy, has been so clear, there won’t be much of a chance to try and explain away anything.

I really believe, the planners and executioners of the plot believed they could get away with this type of poisoning, because the radiation was an alpha emitter, the type of radiation that would not be picked up through most scanning methods now in place, like at the airports etc..

Probably, Lugovoy has now become such an liability, perhaps he may be the next one to be eliminated. To cut the potential ties and reduce the signals pointing back at the SVR (Russian foreign Intelligence). This could possibly explain the conflicting reports concerning his health. Could be a precursor to future events.

Dimitry Kovtun, the other Russian who accompanied Lugovoy to the meeting at the Millenium Hotel Bar could have been involved,  as well as possibly a third Russian suppose to be present, or in the hotel when Litvinenko was poisoned.

There have been reports of radiation found at an apartment (flat) in Hamburg, Germany belonging to Mr Kovtun's former wife, Marina Wall, however, without the traces being found on the airline used by Kovtun to travel to Hamburg from Russia and then to London, makes this find very suspect. There also has been another report of another radiation find in Germany, this one belonging to the former mother in law of Kovtun. Again, without being able trace to an airline to or from in any direction, makes this information very suspect, even though still very possible. The mere trace (low level) of contamination indicates a possible incidental contact with radiation, and not proof of the source. Nothing has been ruled out.

Lugovoy has given differing accounts of events over the period since Litvinenko was pronounced poisoned with Polonium 210. One very important, was that supposedly he did not remember Litvinenko drinking anything at the meeting at the Millenium Hotel. But witnesses clearly remember seeing Litninenko sipping tea.

And another was when he gave a conflicting account to the Russian news service Kommersant. When he said the meeting at the Hotel took place in the PM, after the meeting as the Sushi Bar with the Italian Scaramella. That erroneous information was also published by a British tabloid where Lugovoy gave them an exclusive interview. Then was picked up by other news services and tabloids. Looks to me like a lame attempt at a Russian misinformation campaign.

In my opinion, it would seem to be almost virtually impossible for only one, either Lugovoy or Korvtun, who met with Litvinenko to be a lone conspirator involved with the poisoning during a short meeting on the morning of Nov. 1. The answer begets a question, how would you administer poison with one or two others watching? Or, the practicality of the possibility of someone else watching. Lugovoy has been the most heaviest contaminated individual, and his trails clearly show that. And it appears, judging from the evidence thus far, that he could possibly have been the one who administered the poisonous cocktail.

I’ve been warning and writing about these operations run against us for the last nine years. I’ve had my own numerous close calls and can speak from experience.

Some of Mr. Litvinenko last words were, "The bastards got me, they won't get us all'. He had that exactly right.

Over the past couple of months, there have been a rash of speculative stories published in the press. Mostly coming from so called unnamed officials. But to keep the story going, a new twist is added just about every week.

On 1/21/07, the new story was a mysterious unnamed Russian, who made the tea and poisoned Litvinenko in a room of the Millenium Hotel.  Here is the link to an AP story on Foxnews.com.

Then on 1/22/2004, The BBC interviewed Litvinenko's wife Marina. She said that Sasha told her that: "At the Millennium Hotel, Sasha (Mr. Litvinenko) told me he met Lugovoi and during this meeting he had drunk tea.
"He said it was tea already served, on the table, and he just took this cup of tea, and he didn't finish it at all, and how he later said tea wasn't very tasty, 'because it was cold'." The link to the interview: BBC.co.uk.               

Now, on 1/26/2007 an unnamed senior British source claims they found a teapot that supposedly was used which held the poisoned tea. Link to that report: ABCNEWS.com. But in the interview between the BBC and Marina Litvinenko, she stated that Sasha Litvinenko told her the tea was already served and on the table and he just took this cup of tea, and he didn't finish it at all". There was no mention of a teapot. Mr. Litvinenko drank tea from a teacup, not from a teapot, it was the poison in the cup that that presumably killed him. The interview between the BBC.co.uk. and Mr. Litvinenko's wife contradicts the ABCNEWS.com. account.

The Pine Bar opens at 9:00 AM as per their schedule. If there was a contaminated teapot involved, anything in it would have remained hot between the time period 9:00 & 10:00 AM. It would make no sense to poison the entire contents of a teapot prior to the 10:00 AM meeting, and then only to have a poisoned cup already poured and waiting for him to drink. Obviously, it only took a swallow or two to prove to be fatal.

Assuming there was a teapot on the table, It would have been a lot more effective to let Litvinenko pour his own poisoned tea, or for someone to pour from the teapot in front of him, which then would have been hot and chances are, he would have drank all of it consuming a higher concentration of the poison. Another question would be, why didn't he pour himself a fresh cup from the alleged teapot when he discovered his tea was cold? Quite possibly, there wasn't any.

Another possibility would have been when the staff cleaned up the table, if there was a teapot on the table or on a cart etc., to pour the majority left in the cup that Litvinenko did not drink back into the teapot to transport the cup back to the kitchen for washing. Perhaps that is how the teapot, if there was one anywhere near, could have been contaminated. 

Then, according to another report way back on 12/9/2006 by the Daily Mirror of the U.K., Scotland Yard detectives  quarantined cups and saucers which showed signs of being contaminated. The reports also states seven of the bar staff who clean up the tables or handled the crockery were contaminated.

The same report by the Daily Mirror quoted a senior counterterrorism source, "We think the cup contaminated all the other crockery that was placed in the same dishwasher".  In my opinion, this would have in my estimation, produced a near consistent readout for trace elements throughout all of the crockery in the dishwasher, because it was all washed together. The polonium 210 would not penetrate or stick to any hardened glazed surface after repeated washings in any appreciable concentrations, unless the glazing was crazed, but unlikely in a commercial environment for sanitary reasons.. Here is the link to that report: Mirror.co.uk

I'm sticking with the single poisoned cup theory. I trust the testimony of Mrs. Litvinenko before any unnamed source and news service puffing the importance of the report. It was the poison in the teacup, not an alleged teapot that killed Mr. Litvinenko.

I wonder what it is going to be next week, in a contaminated sugar bowl or other container maybe used for creamer? No wonder Lugovoi is laughing and the Russian Prosecutor won't cooperate.

The Mayfair Millennium Hotel in London on Jan. 26,2007 released a statement to counter the speculative reporting. The X Report.com was offered and accepted the following statement from the Millennium Hotel in London.

I've been made aware the  ABCNEWS.com.  so-called exclusive noted above is a planted disinformation story by a Russian named Oleg Gordievsky. The story is based on his own personal view and not that of Scotland Yard. Gordievsky is the same source for the "mysterious Russian" story noted above as an AP article on Foxnews.com. This originated from a TimesOnline.co.uk piece. Both stories and their sources have been discredited. Gordievsky is wasting everyone's time. I'm surprised they allow him to do that.

As I analyzed and stated before starting on 11/21/2006 in part 1, 2 and 3 of this series, the poison that murdered Mr. Litvinenko was in a teacup he drank from. A person would be hard pressed to find anyone else that figured that out right away and be able to prove it.

Well it didn't take too very long and we now have another report. This time, the report comes from the U.K. internet news service, This is London.co.uk (link) a.k.a The Evening Standard. The report claims the waiter who serviced the Litvinenko table at the Millennium Pine Bar in London is Noberto Andrade, 67 and says doctors only give him five or six years to live because he has been fatally contaminated with the poison.

The report makes no mention of any particulars or specifics other than he served the table with green tea in a pot. So I left a comment on the story page. Whether or not they will publish the comment remains to be seen. I also sent the editor an email to let him know. I will post the exact comment here I left on their website:

"Mrs. Litvinenko gave the BBC an interview on Jan. 22. Mr. Litvinenko told her the tea was already served and on the table and he just took this cup of tea, and he didn't finish it at all, and how he later said tea wasn't very tasty, 'because it was cold'. She did not mention he said anything about a teapot. Who purchased the tea, Lugovoi? Did the server pour the tea into the cup? Who was seated at the table when he served the tea? Did he leave the teapot on the table? Did he pour the remainder of the tea Mr. Litvinenko didn't drink back into the pot? How did he transport the crockery back to the kitchen or bar area, on a tray or cart? What type of ceramics was the cup and pot made from? Was it a smooth glazed material on the inside? Was the pot washed in the same dishwasher at the same time as the teacup and saucer? Did the teapot have a lid on it? Was the teapot insulated? What time did he serve the tea? Seems this report raises many questions that need to be answered before any determination can be made as to whether the teapot was directly poisoned or the poison was placed directly into the teacup before the arrival of Mr. Litvinenko." (Posted to their website @ 11:39 AM EST on 1/29/2007)

It would also be interesting to know how this unfortunate gentleman came to be so heavily contaminated with the polonium 210. Because he wasn't only externally contaminated, but somehow managed to ingest the contaminated tea, or it entered through a wound, or came into contact with his eyes etc..

Again, the report is very short and vague with statements like, " It is thought the assassin slipped a capsule of the polonium 210 into the tea while seated at the table"  and in reference to the teacup and pot "Both items have since been seized by police". But it is well known, the police have seized a lot more than just that.

So we will see if this is an accurate report or another load of crap. Keep a watch!

Something is already fishy. The British tabloid The Sun.co.uk (link) is where this report may have originated from.  The report is not exactly word for word,  but is just as short and vague and lacks specifics. Some sentences are exactly the same where others have different words used in the same sentences. There are a few different sentences altogether. I've tried to contact the writer Virginia Wheeler for some clarifications. I won't be holding my breath.

The report in "This is London.com" is probably a recycled version from some hours earlier in The Sun.co.uk.

In a email exchange with Virginia Wheeler, she confirmed the This is London.co.uk (link) article was a recycled version. She avoided answering any of the questions I asked citing being able to use only "cursory details " because it is a sensitive police investigation. But that has never stopped "The Sun" from publishing details of the investigation before for legal reasons.

Here is a good example. In a piece published by The Sun titled: "Italian is 'well' after tests" (link), it goes on to state five paragraphs into the article "Detectives are convinced Mr. Scaramella was “nuked” as he breathed in particles coming from the former Russian spy’s food at their sushi bar meeting".

That report has proven to be totally untrue. Mr. Litvinenko was poisoned at the Millennium Pine Bar, not at the Sushi Bar and Mr. Scaramella, has not been internally contaminated (poisoned) with Polonium 210.

There are many other inaccuracies in the same story too. Just read the last five paragraphs. I'm not going to waste any more time on it. I've saved a screen shot of the story in the event they try and cover it up. This story was written by their crime editor, M. Sullivan.

As I suspected, there was not any person, other than Litvinenko who was fatally poisoned by the polonium 210. Nor was there any other person who has been identified as having been presently sickened or identified as having been adversely affected in the long term from trace level exposure to the Polonium 210. The U.K. Health Protection Agency on March 1, 2007 released its latest press statement.

There were a total of 700 people tested for exposure to the Polonium 210. Of those 700 tested, 581 of them have been ruled out as having been exposed to any level of contamination.

The health protection agency released the following report:

Paul Joyal Assasination Attempt

Some Notes On How KGB Or Other Political Interest Assassinate

Is it a mere strange coincidence, that four days after an airing on Dateline about the Litvinenko murder that a Washington DC based consultant who was interviewed on the show regarding Russian security services is shot on his driveway?

According to a media report by the (International Herald Tribune - Kremlin critic shot in front of his Maryland home - link), an anonymous federal law enforcement official was quoted as saying " the federal authorities were leaning towards the view that Joyal was the victim of a street crime unrelated to his opinions related to Russia".

I would say to that statements, not so fast. That is exactly how these foreign intelligence services or other interest operate. Preferably, assassins would make it look like an accident or use other methods, with no tracks left in the snow to follow.

Try this on for example. It was real easy to find Mr. Joyal’s address, age, telephone number and a map showing where he lived employing a simple search on the internet.

Now that it has been established how easy that was, lets examine how an assassin would want to operate. Again they want to make it look like an accident or use another plausible reason for a motive, other than the obvious. They would exploit any potential weakness a target may have. Even search for your medical records, if they could get their hands on them to see if you have any exploitable weaknesses.

There would be a multitude of possible scenario’s. I’m going to pick one out here. One that seems to be a possibility based on the available public information released thus far.

In this instance, for the sake of argument, lets call Mr. Joyal a target. They would look for a weakness in his lifestyle or whatever would make for a perfect murder. In this case, the most obvious would be his proximity to a high crime area.

Lets say the Russian mafia was called upon (and they do operate here in the U.S.) by the Russian FSB or former KGB operatives or other interest. They would request a hit on someone and want to make it look like random crime. So they hire hit men, maybe they are crack or other type of junkies and were promised drugs and or cash.

According to press reports, Mr. Joyal was shot in the pelvic region. It would be not be very hard to explain away how he could have been hit there. I know if someone pulls out a gun on me, I would only need to see the movement and one could color me gone. That may very well explain why he was shot in that location. On the other hand, it’s a possibility to think maybe it was intentional and was to serve a warning. I don’t know the exact facts on the matter making it hard to make an exact determination.

This can’t be so easily dismissed as a random crime.

I definitely would have questions on all of this. A very serious first question I would have, is why would an expert on Russian KGB intelligence be so easy to find? Would you not care about your own welfare and that of your family (if a person had one) when dealing with these sensitive subjects?

Now I’m going to tell you what I really believe. I believe there are a lot of experts and some politicians and so forth that are in way over their heads on these matters (that only adds to the confusion). And the media, they also have a responsibility not to put peoples lives in jeopardy.

This is definitely one that is going to be hard to prove one way or another unless the shooters are apprehended alive, if they still are.

And if you work in these fields and talk openly or write about these subjects, better get your home addresses off the internet and start imposing security methods on oneself, as uncomfortable as it may be.

Part VII

Joyal Shooting

I usually don’t jump on stories like this at such an early stage. But this one stood right out.

There have been numerous conflicting reports coming from the media concerning the facts surrounding the shooting. Some of the initial reporting suggested Mr. Joyal’s wallet and briefcase were missing, leading many to believe this was a botched robbery.

I never weighed those misreported facts in.

The newest report comes from NBC4.com/news in Adelphi, Maryland. Their information suggest it may have been a carjacking. However, that also corroborates that the area is in close proximity to, if not an area where crime occurs. That makes it for a perfect backdrop. Motor vehicle theft for Hyattsville, Maryland, which is less than five miles to the south from where Mr. Joyal lives, was almost two times more than the national average. This average was based on the 2005 FBI crime reports.  (link: see 2005 Hyattsville FBI crime report) 

Now we have not only shown how easy it was to find Paul Joyal on the internet, there is now proof that the area he lives in can be subjected to crime. This could lay the foundation for an attempted hit or warning.

Most of the facts are somewhat sketchy coming from news sources with varying degrees of connections relative to the true facts.

I’m going to take NBC4 at their word for some of the facts they reported on. According to their sources, Mr. Joyal was followed home by the assailants.

Additional reporting by the source indicate there were more than one assailant, as was earlier reported. The reporting also goes on to say that there was a getaway car involved.

The reporting goes on to state there was a struggle with Mr. Joyal and one of the assailants. The report also goes on to conclude that it was a carjacking gone bad.

But that point, assuming a carjacking went bad cannot be solidified with the facts. It just doesn’t square. If it was a carjacking only, then after shooting Mr. Joyal, why did not the assailants just take the car and leave? You had a wounded man probably just laying there incapacitated. They went so far, why not go the rest of the way?

Obviously there was a firearm used. When a carjacker uses a firearm during a (carjacking), they are prepared to use whatever means needed to achieve their objective. But they left the car.

In another report, by the AP via The International Herald Tribune updated version, Mrs. Joyal was interviewed and wanted to straighten out some of the facts. She was adamant her husband was not robbed and the briefcase and his wallet were located.

She stated when interviewed on Monday, "We really have no idea what the reason was," said Elizabeth Joyal, but she added that "it could easily have been a random act of violence."

If the reporting from various news sources are accurate, Mr. Joyal was followed from the International Spy Museum in Washington DC and being followed from there for a distance of (19) nineteen miles or about slightly more than a half an hour drive at the very least, but it may have taken a little longer, depending on traffic and the exact route taken.

The hours at the museum were from 10:00Am till 6:00PM on March the first, the day he was shot.

So we have assailants that staked out Mr. Joyal’s car in Washington DC, at the International Spy Museum, in a area being only six (6) short blocks from the White House . The assailants followed an adult male after a meeting with a former KGB spy at a spy museum and leaving probably during the latter part of peak traffic hours and maybe even later. There are some time line discrepancies.

Mr. Joyal, 54 years of age, not appearing debilitated, in a nice car, traveled for over a half an hour to his home. And then when the assailants pulled up behind him at Mr. Joyal’s driveway, one of the assailants gets out of the getaway car, and supposedly attempts to steal the car at gunpoint. Mr. Joyal puts up a struggle, the assailant shoots him as told to by the assailant driving the getaway car, (just shoot him was heard by a witness?) and then leaves in the getaway car after driving quite a distance without stealing the car and after rendering the subject incapacitated .

In my opinion, very possibly, this was an assassination attempt set up to appear as a carjacking, which did not go according to plan after Mr. Joyal surprised the assailants when he struggled and at the same time quite possibly, interrupted by another witness who was close enough to hear the assailant in the getaway car shout, “just shoot him“. Or they would have finished their job one way or another. Not being trained international assassins, they panicked when disrupted. If they really wanted that car, after all that, they could have taken it. Another five or ten seconds would not have mattered. It seemed to be more important to just shoot him and leave the car.
 

added information on 3/7/2007- "Motor vehicle theft for Hyattsville, Maryland, which is less than five miles to the south from where Mr. Joyal lives, was almost two times more than the national average. This average was based on the 2005 FBI crime reports.  (link: see 2005 Hyattsville FBI crime report)"  (initial research added to paragraph #4 for proof) (Mr. Joyal has two public home address listings on the net that use the same street name and address. One is listed as Hyattsville Md., and the other Adelphi, Md.) (Both maps point to the exact same street address)

TW 3/7/2007

Spies and Former Spies Beware

Part VIII

I’ve waited to see how things were going to pan out in the case of Alexander Litvinenko and Paul Joyal, the American from Maryland who believes his shooting was a professional hit, which I believe was connected to the Litvinenko case.

It now definitely appears that the Litvinenko case is going nowhere. The Russian’s have the Brit’s by the gonads over energy supplies, Tony Blair has high-tailed it, the Bush administration has taken a in public neutral position on the case and Russia officially refuses to extradite Andrei Lugovoi. No surprise there.

Lugovoi won’t allow himself to be tried in Britain and wisely so on his part. If he was truly innocent and not connected to the KGB/FSB, he would willingly travel to the U.K and defend himself. Lugovoi has the financial means to defend himself and Britain does not have a death penalty.

The director of public prosecutions for the U.K., Sir Ken McDonald concluded the evidence was strong enough to charge and extradite Russian Andrei Lugovoi. I don’t believe the U.K. prosecutorial service will allow the Russian prosecutors have the evidence and put on a for show only circus trial in Russia or compromise the evidence.

Perhaps at least, the KGB/FSB is put on notice they cannot get away with continued international assassinations as easily as before (at least for the interim). Maybe they will again have to get a little more creative. Make something look as though it is an accident or crime. That is how its done folks. You just never know.

Mrs. Litvinenko and Mr. Goldfarb, Mr. Litvinenko’s friend are busy out selling books, and attending film festivals. Mrs. Litvinenko was interviewed by the Charlie Rose show recently and spoke of the timeline the day the Mr. Litvinenko was poisoned, which was flawed. Mr. Goldfarb is pushing his own uncorroborated version (theory) of the events (not publicly backed up by Scotland Yard).

While this may not have been be helpful to the case, perhaps they did not really expect the case to go anywhere under the circumstances, so why not go out and make as much money as you can and keep it in the limelight at the same time. Personally, I find the former somewhat unhelpful and questionable, but it wasn‘t my spouse.

This was an act of nuclear terrorism, because it involved and affected so many innocent people which could have been catastrophic. Amazingly and fortunately, no one else other than Litvinenko has been killed thus far by the incident.

So the Litvinenko case, barring any unforeseen slip-ups by Moscow or Lugovoi, will never be resolved.

TW 7/5/2007

Spies and Former Spies Beware

Part IX

In retaliation for the Russian government refusal to extradite Andrei Lugovoi, the Brits have expelled four Russian diplomats and the Russian government in turn expelled four British diplomats.

Vladimir Putin and the Russian government are now attempting to downplay the significance of the expulsions of the diplomats, but that is an old KGB trick, to get you to let your guard down while they secretly and quietly turn up the heat.

Putin has ordered his air force to harass the Brits by attempting to enter their airspace. This is reminiscent of cold war tactics. The object is to harass and test the capabilities of the Brits. This could very well continue into the future if the Brits don‘t back-off the demand for the extradition of Andrei Lugovoi .

There have been press reports, there may have been an assassination attempt against Boris Berezovsky’s life and the perpetrator has been deported. But I question the lack of facts and evidence about this and because there are a lot of shady players involved. If there was a murder plot against Mr. Berezovsky, the British government would not have deported a murder suspect back to Russia. They would have detained him and sent him to trial, especially after the Litvinenko assassination. Obviously, there is not any evidence and the talk is nothing but unsubstantiated conjecture. Possibly, a political stunt.

The news about Paul Joyal has been very quiet as of late. Other than Mr. Joyal stating he believes he was targeted for assassination, there has been limited information forthcoming.

Another reason that I discount the motive to be a random street crime in the Joyal case is due to the simple reason that the persons involved, would not have been hiding there for any length of time. No one, will hide in bushes, adjacent to homes, for a period of time, in broad daylight, and then waiting until just about dusk, to commit a random crime, it is way too risky. The perpetrators would have had to know somehow when Mr. Joyal was to arrive at home if he was not followed.

So the questions still remain, did they stake him out and follow him home or were they tipped off about his travels about when and where. Specifically when he left the International spy museum in D.C. and headed directly to his residence. There possibly appears to be some deception regarding the reported timeline - at least to the press. Either way, seemingly, they most certainly would have known Mr. Joyal was at the International Spy Museum in D.C. and when he left to arrive home..

Mr. Joyal was to meet his appointment at or very near closing time on that day. Obviously, Mr. Joyal spent some time with the former KGB agent and after closing time of the Museum. Perhaps, they were spending some time in one of the conference rooms of the International Spy Museum.

Andrei Lugovoi has been very talkative as of late, still claiming his innocence. He refuses to be tried by any third party country or in the U.K... I also don’t believe the Brits would try the case outside of the U.K. because the terrorist act occurred in the U.K and as well as for other reasons..

Mr. Lugovoi appears be very worried that if he would travel outside of Russia, he would be snatched up in some operation and hauled back to Britain. Lugovoi has recently stated he will not leave the borders of Russia and that he is very content to stay within, however, I would not put it past Lugovoi to travel incognito. At some point, he will probably try it. He has business interest outside of Russia and he has a very daring type of personality.

I have been thinking, and I’ve been told that when I do that, things can get dangerous. But anyhow, I wonder if the Brits are having any second thoughts about the way political dissidents (former KGB agents) have been allowed to collaborate so openly and freely. Hence, I mean, I would think this could eventually, lead up to serious national security problems. Take Berezovsky for instance, not that long ago, he called for the overthrow of the Putin regime from the safety and the confines of another country, and he has many contacts and supporters in Russia with which to utilize.. Eventually, this type of across border political activity will have a negative impact on the host country, in this case, it is the United Kingdom.

I watched other exiles (& former KGB agent) which now live in the U.K. promote disinformation regarding the Litvinenko case, and the media sucks it up and runs with it as though it is the truth. It was not helping with the Litvinenko case and causes confusion while possibly discrediting the known facts.. So why would they do it? You tell me…

I recall during either December of 1999 or Jan. of 2000 I was attending an auction in Hershey, Pa.. Now to put this in a little bit of perspective, prior to that, I had wrote a couple of articles about someone selling (large volumes) the Russians some of our high tech (classified) military gear. Not to mention, I was on to Putin right from the get-go, realizing that a KGB agent taking over as president of Russia, I just knew there was going to be trouble and wrote about that too and, helped to neutralize a Russian intelligence operation successfully.

Anyhow, this person walks up to me, taller than I and starts talking about politics and then on to about the Clinton’s marital relations while living in the White House together. He said to me they were just animals, he used the word vicious more than once to describe them. He stated that how they were warring with each other and when they were in the White House together, they would be at opposite ends of the White House just to avoid each other.

Now, I thought to myself, I wonder who this guy is and what he wants to know. He appeared and sounded to be American. Said he lived in the D.C. area and I thought to myself, oh boy. So I told him I did a little writing, and the subject matter we talked about was the Russians. His ears perked up and eyes bugged. I suppose he thought he would trade a little information with me. To sum it up, I did not tell him anything that I did not write about previously.

He wanted to know how I did my work and who was telling me this information, I just told him point blank, I can’t tell him that ( I protect my methodology)… He just shook his head in an up and down manner indicating he understood, and I remember, he appeared to stiffen up and his eyes opened up a little wider. He never identified himself, I never asked, and maybe all for the better. I kind of thought to myself he was probably FBI, but had no idea he was a traitor named Robert Hanssen. I never knew that before, until I saw his picture after he was arrested in 2001, and put together the events before and after this.

“I don’t believe Hanssen was acting alone“. Not too long after the auction, there was an incident. There has been more than one incident, but I will just discuss this one for now.

Without going into detail, I will explain it this way for security reasons. The location where I was working caused me to travel every day across a bridge spanning a river. It is a highway, where the speeds usually ran around 65 mph and sometimes faster, sometimes slower. I had developed a pattern where I traveled across this river at near a certain time each day. Not really paying attention to all vehicles around me at all times (but I do now) I remember a van speeding beside me (left side) on the multiple lane highway and cutting over in front of me. There was not too much distance in front of me. The next thing I knew was there was a steel ramp thrown out of the van right in front of me. Not having more than a split second to react, instinctively, I turned hard to the right, I could feel the pick up truck go on two wheels heading in the direction of the lane to the right of me, then in the next instance (split second), I had to cut the wheels hard back to the left, again to avoid crashing into and or going over the edge of the bridge..

I never got a plate number. No time for that. After some of the shock wore off, and about possibly a mile later or so, an older four door vehicle drove past me at a higher rate of speed. A sign was flashed from the rear window as the car went speeding past with someone holding what appeared a hastily made sign from a piece of cardboard with lettering, probably scribbled with a magic marker with the word “AGILE” pressed up against the rear window. Those guys looked really rough from the brief glimpse I got and there were at least two in the vehicle..

When I think about what would have happened had I hit the ramp with either wheel or both, chances are that I would have flipped and maybe crashed or rolled and possibly into the side of the bridge or went over it. I then realized, I definitely touched a nerve or two somewhere, that was obvious. This was very professional.

At that point, all kinds of thoughts start flashing through your mind. I was questioning whether this was related to me neutralizing Russian intelligence operations, was this Clinton’s hit men, after all, there were stories all over the place of the Clinton’s having people snuffed out ranging from cocaine deals to political hits.. Everything ran the full gambit.

This was one of those times when it felt like the universe shown directly down on you and said, ok Ted, its your time to shine, don’t screw it up.

I thought, holy smokes, who do you trust, my conclusion: no one. There are spies everywhere operating in the U.S., a K.G.B. agent and current head of the FSB (formerly KGB) is named by Boris Yeltsin to be the Russian Vice Prime Minister and later that very same day, Putin is elevated to the position of Russian Prime Minister. Then seemingly right away (7 weeks later), the Russians invade Chechnya and only a week into the conflict (ground assault), Putin signs an order to begin oil and natural gas extraction, the Russians are inciting the Muslims through Intel operations, the Russians are kidnapping journalist, the Clinton administration and the C.I.A. seems oblivious to all of the operations being run against us, someone was selling the Russians large quantities of high tech equipment (classified) and using them against us, the Clintons are attending parties where they are collaborating with Chinese agents trying to steal our technologies, I’m cracking Russian Intel operations, someone is trying to take me out. I thought man, we have problems, I need to stay alive and do what I do best.
I was only a nobody, what can I do. Thank God a presidential election was coming up. We needed a change and it could not come fast enough. That is why I worked so hard to get Bush elected. I knew we were in big trouble and it seemed like he was the right guy for the job..

I thought for sure, the C.I.A. and the former administration would brief the new Bush administration on what the threats were to the U.S.. It seemed to start off right, the FBI nailed the traitor Hannsen. But that was not to be.

I was in complete shock when President Bush looked Putin in the eye and said he saw his soul. Thinking, oh my god, he either has not been informed by the C.I.A. or the former Clinton administration during the transition on the urgent threats or the totality of them all, or he is trying to use psychology against a decorated KGB agent. This did not set well with me.

Suppose now, know why I was so fired up. How could anyone go about their business? Everything was not business as usual, that is why. There were reasons for all of the activity directed at the U.S.. It seemed like no one was connecting the dots but me, chided for being a cold war stereotype, a Russophobe, stuck in the mindset of the cold war, chide all you want, I nailed it right from the get-go..

Contrary to Democrat popular opinion and some Republicans, I am proud I have helped to get President Bush elected the first time, re-elected for a second term and that he is our President.. None of us all of the time may agree on domestic policies for a variety of different reasons, but most importantly, I view domestic and foreign policy matters from the standpoint of holding together a coalition of allies, both here in the U.S. and abroad, that is how we win wars more easily, by keeping the people close to us through our actions. Simply put, take care of the people, and they will take care of you.

I don’t believe the President got the full story from day one, and still don’t believe he has. Maybe the evidence does not exist anymore. Thanks to Sandy Berger and others.

So for the future, I believe the Brits as well as the U.S., will have to watch the gates a little more closely. I believe it will be imperative that all known and suspected Russian intelligence service personnel be denied entry or tracked and monitored very, very closely. If we don’t, we will be just asking for more trouble.

In the meantime, all of the smoke and mirrors along with the bursts of hot air does nothing to resolve the Litvinenko murder. The British government has done about as much as they can without starting a shooting war with the Russians.

Continued worldwide condemnation and pressure on Vladimir Putin will eventually have an impact. But I don’t believe he will ever give up Lugovoi, at least alive. Putin is way too smart for that. I wouldn’t put anything past him.

TW 08/07/2007

correction added - Inserted "Putin becomes Prime Minister" instead of President.

I am going to save the rest for my book sometime. A no B.S. assessment of the events and accounts of America at Risk.                                                               

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•  KGB 'tried to poison man' in sushi bar - Scotland Yard is investigating the attempted murder of a top Russian defector - DailyMail.co.uk 11/21/2006
•  British Police Investigating Litvinenko Poisoning Case - The Litvinenko poisoning is reminiscent of past Soviet-style skullduggery - RFE/RL.org  11/21/2006
•  The bastards got me, they won't get us all'
  Poisoned spy defiant in final interview before his death - TimesOnline.Co.UK 11/24/2006
•  Radiation Link In Spy Death - RFE/RL.org 11/24/2006
•  Who killed Litvinenko? The first meeting, at 10am, was at the Millennium Mayfair Hotel in central London with Sergei Lugovoy, a former KGB bodyguard and businessman who runs a security company in Moscow  - Friends of Mr Litvinenko insist that he drank tea during the meeting. TheIndependent.co.uk 11/25/2006
•  British Authorities May Test Litvinenko Contacts - authorities say they may seek to carry out health tests on customers at a restaurant and hotel - RFE/RL.org 11/26/2006
•  NO IMMUNITY - Blair warning to Russians - 10am arrived at Mayfair hotel - 3pm he went to Itsu restaurant - 6pm went to Grosvenor address - Mirror.co.uk 11/29/2006
•  Radiation is detected on BA flights to Moscow -
  traces of radiation on two of its three aircraft that have flown to Moscow - TimesOnline.co.uk  11/30/2006
•  Flights take poison trail to Moscow - The finger of suspicion over the Alexander Litvinenko poisoning was pointing at Moscow last night - Telegraph.co.uk 11/30/2006
•  "It was reported that the levels of radiation were highest in the toilets of the Millennium Hotel in London, where Mr.  Litvinenko had a meeting shortly before falling ill" - Guardian.co.uk  12/1/2006
•  Litvinenko informant contaminated -  TimesOnline.co.uk 12/1/2006  Cross Contamination?
•  Contact & Wife positive for polonium test - Mr Scaramella is not thought to be suffering physical symptoms - BBC.co.uk  12/1/2006
•  "traces so strong in a room of Millenium Hotel,  indicates the actual source of the radiation was present" Telegraph.co.uk 12/2/2006
•  X KGB Sergei Lugovoy, from Russia is contaminated with Polonium 210 - TimesOnline.co.uk 12/2/2006
•  Revealed: Litvinenko's Russian 'blackmail plot' - Guardian.co.uk
•  Traces of spy poison found in cup at Millenium Hotel - Telegraph.co.uk 12/9/2006
•  Russia to blame, says Litvinenko widow - Observer-Guardian.co.uk 12/10/2006
•  POISONED SPY: IT WAS IN HIS TEA - was poisoned by having polonium 210 slipped into his drink at the hotel, probably while distracted by a phone call or other interruption - Mirror.co.uk
•  THE BUS TICKET THAT PROVES WHERE SPY WAS POISONED - LETHAL DOSE GIVEN AT HOTEL -  Mirror.co.uk
•  WE KNOW KGB SPY POISONER -  British detectives are certain they know who murdered former Soviet spy Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive poison. - Mirror.co.uk  1/8/2007
•  Russian tycoon Berezovsky says Litvenenko named Lugovoy - says he never talked to Scotland Yard about it.  Reuters.com
•  Berezovsky Breaks Silence On Litvinenko - Litvinenko: Boris, I won't say publicly, but I believe Lugovoy, Kovtun and another person poisoned me. RFE/RL.org
•  Open Season On Journalist - Another Disliked Russian Reporter Dies Suspiciously In Russia After Falling Five Stories - TV3.co.nz
•  Number of spies in UK returns to cold war levels - Counter intelligence officers say there are now 30 agents operating out of the Russian Embassy and trade mission - Guardian.co.uk
•  Russian Intelligence Expert Calls Attack Assassination Attempt
  Mr. Paul Joyal believes the attack on him was more than just a local crime - NBC4.com  (Again, The X Report gathers, analyzes and gets it right. Read Part VI and VII of Spies and Former Spies Beware)
•   U.K. Crown Prosecution Service Director of Public Prosecutions Sir Ken Macdonald :  "I have today concluded that the evidence sent to us by the police is sufficient to charge Andrei Lugovoi with the murder of Mr Litvinenko by deliberate poisoning. - BBC.co.uk (Once Again, The X Report Gathers, Analyzes And Nails It! Light Years Ahead Of The Rest.)
• Russia Refuses British Extradition Request in Poisoned Spy Case - Russian prosecutors have officially rejected Britain's request for the extradition of Andrei Lugovoi - VoiceOfAmerica.com