This post is pure speculation, but I have been tripping over some news here and there regarding Polonium-210 in general and the Litvinenko incident specifically, which when put together create a possible scenario for where the Po-210 that was found in London either came from or went. I wanted to just capture all these stories in one post and establish an interesting theory, which honestly has no basis in reality – yet.

The first hint was a story in American Thinker about how smuggling between Russia and Iran has been able to take advantage of the fact both countries share borders on the Caspian Sea. The hypothesis was regarding a person who was known to violate travel restrictions from Iran who turned up in Russia. The bottom line is smuggling of nuclear material via this route is possible and maybe the source of much of Iran’s current nuclear technological know-how and production systems.

The second tidbit comes from stories regarding the clear production of Polonium-210 by Iran using Russian technology. The first is a story by Edward J Epstein regarding Russian claims that Iran had small, not strategic nuclear weapons. What caught my eye is the claim Iran was using their Russian provided nuclear plants to produce Po-210. This was also claimed here by Iranian dissidents in exile, and here from the UN’s own IAEA.

So we have established there is a possible connection between Russia and Iran and Polonium via the Caspian Sea. But there is another route for smuggling nuclear materials in the region which is via Turkey – which has a history of smuggling incidents. The fact that material could flow via Iran over the Caspian Sea to Russia means it could flow through Russia and into Turkey as well. And from here we can reach the Litvinenko Po-210 trail:

I posted on this before but there was a Po-210 concern in Istanbul because two of the planes that were associated with the Litvinenko incident and the visits by Lugovoi to London to meet Litvinenko (each of which involved Po-210 contamination at the hotel) apparently also flew to Ataturk Airport. Assuming these legs have a return flight as well then there is a possibility for the movement of the Po-210 to be from Turkey or to Turkey. Anyway there are two stores on this here and here which never were resolved in the news. We never hear the outcome of these tests (that I can find). One thing is interesting is that 36 people were tested (link here) for two – three flights. The Ground Crew for one flight is not that large, so this may be more than the cabin clean up crew and may include baggage handlers. It is hard to tell, but the fact is the Po-210 trail leads from London to Turkey at a minimum. And I do not recall seeing any other stories about airport personnel at any other cities in the flight plans of all the planes suspected of carrying contaminated people. Just some food for thought.

When considering the possible implications it is worth looking at this post and the Berezovsky ties to the region:

Regular readers of this site know that almost all of my articles are only on the military moves and preparations of nations involved in the war and some of the suspected reasons behind their decisions, but occasionally something happens behind the financial scenes which is of extreme significance. A similar case happened in Geneva with the death of the French private banker Edouard Stern who was found dead in his apartment above a police station March 2005 as mentioned on this site at the time. It was reported, by the New York Times, that Stern headed the British engineering firm Delta and I suspected they had projects in Iran involved in direct assistance to Iran’s military preparations for (f)allout war and Teheran had no more use for him. They certainly did not want Stern serving the Allied war effort.

But Teheran and obviously banking circles in The City of London, its financial center, still had plenty of use for the criminal Russian financial agent Alexander Litvienko who was assassinated with a radioactive substance, polonium – 210, a by product of uranium, on November 1 as he dined then died at the Itsu shushi restaurant in London.

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In that established corrupt tradition they decided to have no economic embargo against Iran and had the San Francisco based engineering concern construct bases for Iran after the Gulf War ended as shown on CNN and warned by Henry Kissinger in 1991. Their decision making is that much in the dark, they lost their minds quite some time ago. The only thing left to do is eliminate the most damaging elements and Berezovsky is next and whoever else he implicates.

These seem like wild claims, but so do the claims Putin was behind Litvinenko’s Po-210 poisoning. What is also interesting is the fact Berezovsky was an admitted funder for Chechen separatists – which makes him a supporter of terrorists. If we are going to look at dirty hands, Berezovsky is right up there.