Contact says secret Russian groups poisoned ex-spy
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An Italian contact of poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko accused "clandestine organizations" from Russia that were not under direct control of the Kremlin of targeting his dead friend.
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Mario Scaramella, who met with ex Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko on the day he fell ill, said he had five times the amount of the radioactive substance polonium considered deadly in his body, as British police officers prepared to travel to Russia to continue their inquiry.
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Traces of the rare radioactive substance polonium-210 were found at a German apartment visited by a contact of fatally poisoned ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko &#151; before the two men met in London, authorities said Sunday.
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Andrei Lugovoy, a contact of poisoned  Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, is suffering from  radiation poisoning, Interfax news agency said on Friday,  quoting medical sources.
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A former Russian spy fighting for his life in a British hospital may have been given poison in a radioactive form to render it more lethal, the toxicologist treating him said on Tuesday.
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LONDON, Nov. 21 -- Mario Scaramella, the Italian who had lunch in London with a former Russian spy on the day the man was poisoned, said Tuesday that he showed the Russian e-mails during the meal that warned their lives might be in danger.
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British doctors treating an exiled Russian former spy said on Tuesday they may never know what was used to poison him.
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The hospital treating a former Russian spy said Tuesday radioactive substances might have been used in the poisoning of Col.Comment
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A Russian dissident may have been poisoned in the UK with a radioactive substance, says an expert toxicologist.
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A Russian who met in London with Alexander Litvinenko and with the man whom British authorities accuse of murdering him said in an interview broadcast Tuesday that he expects he may also be accused in the former KGB agent's poisoning death.
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A former Russian spy may have been poisoned with radioactive thallium, the toxicologist treating him has said, after British counter-terrorism police took over the probe into what happened to him.
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The head of a center that trains security personnel and held a competition for Russian special forces confirmed Tuesday that it has used shooting targets showing the photo of a former agent who was fatally poisoned in London last year. However, Sergei Lysyuk, head of the Vityaz Center, said he had been unaware that the photo target showed the poisoned ex-agent, Alexander Litvinenko.
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A former Russian secret service agent claimed that he was recruited by British intelligence through Alexander Litvinenko, the agent murdered last year, in a Russian television interview aired on Friday.
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LONDON -- Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was fatally poisoned by a radioactive substance, traces of which were found in his urine, at his home, and at a London restaurant and hotel he visited the day he became ill, authorities said.
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LONDON/ROME  - A radioactive substance that killed former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko has been found in Italian contact Mario Scaramella but so far he shows no sign of radiation poisoning, a British hospital said on Saturday.
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Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned in London three weeks ago, has suffered a sudden turn for the worse and is now very seriously ill, the hospital treating him said on Thursday.
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Text of the statement dictated by former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko before he died and released by his friends on Friday: