A retired Russian military intelligence officer has fallen ill in England after exposure to an unknown substance. Does that sound familiar?
A man identified by local news reports as a retired Russian military intelligence officer who once spied for Britain is critically ill at a British hospital, and the authorities were investigating his "exposure to an unknown substance."
According to several reports, the man, found unconscious on a bench in the city of Salisbury, is Sergei V. Skripal, 66. He was once jailed by Moscow, then settled in Britain after an exchange of spies between the United States and Russia in 2010.
The British police have not publicly identified the man in the hospital or a 33-year-old woman who fell sick with him at a shopping mall called the Maltings.
The authorities have, however, released enough detail about what they called a "major incident" to draw some comparisons, however premature, to the case of Alexander V. Litvinenko, a former Russian spy who was poisoned in London in 2006.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by legont on Tuesday March 06 2018, @08:00PM
Reportedly, there were 300 people on the spy list that he sold to MI6 for $100,000. They are probably tough people who have many tough friends some of which are quite rich. Any one of them could execute the revenge. Seems to me more likely scenario than an "official" order.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.