Poisoned Spy Before Death: I Hired Assassins While Working For Govt...

Associated Press:

An former KGB agent poisoned in London described in interviews before his death how he was ordered to hire assassins to neutralize potential rivals and whistle-blowers who threatened the Kremlin, according to excerpts published on Saturday.

Alexander Litvinenko, an ex-spy turned critic of Russian President
Vladimir Putin, died Thursday of heart failure after suddenly falling gravely ill from what doctors said was poisoning by a radioactive substance. British pathologists were assessing Saturday when they may finally be able to examine the highly contaminated body and experts claimed investigators may never pinpoint the exact source of the rare radioactive polonium-210 element found in the spy's urine by toxicologists.

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