I would be interested in seeing the dull and worthy paper, if you don't mind passing it along...
I agree that dancing on his grave is not a thing to be doing, but do we really believe that the FSB has a department in charge of recruiting murderers, or that L suddenly acquired a conscience when asked to kill a certain wealthy oligarch who then became his patron?
--- James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> The doubts raised by Chris Doss and Peter Lavelle
> are pertinent, and in the article we did try to
> convey the point that a lot of what Alexander
> Litvinenko said was questionable. That said, I did
> not want to dance on his grave. Peter especially
> says he knows that he was not killed by the Russian
> security services. I think he might well be right,
> but I don't know.
>
> Chris asks what my interest was, and honestly, it
> was tangential. I was researching a dull and worthy
> paper on Chechen ethnic groups in Moscow in the
> early 90s, and among the (admittedly febrile) London
> expatriates we interviewed Litvinenko about his time
> in the FSB. The article does not purport to be
> anything but Litvinenko's own version of his life. I
> was interviewed on Channel 4 news again tonight and
> will talk to Stern later on. Any advice gratefully
> received.
>
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