When the Litvinenko death first made headlines and I suspected the PR effort was too smooth and well rehearsed for a surprise death, I suspected the supposed assassination was actually the inadvertent exposure of a terroris smuggling effort. I noted that Litvinenko was hailed as a martyr by Chechen Muslims, not something easily bestowed on […]

The Litvinenko case has gone from the strange into the bizarre. What is truly compelling is that Andrei Lugovoi stated he would not have anything to say until things got going on January 15th. Well some interesting things got going today. Apparently Russians believe the Litvinenko death is somehow tied to the Yukos oil companies […]

We had heard earlier reports that Kovtun’s ex-wife, partner and her two children had been cleared of Po-210 poisoning. It seems those reports were premature: In the poison spy case the focus is now moving to Germany … where four people have been confirmed contaminated with polonium-210, the substance used to kill the former KGB […]

In the continuing saga of the Litvinenko poisoning by Polonium-210 it seems the Russian investigators will be travelling to London to sit in on some more interrogations related to the Po-210 smuggling and Litvinenko death (which some believe was an assassination while others, like myslef, believe it was an accident in handling the very dangerous […]

The most intriguing and vague part of the Litvinenko Polonium-210 trail relates to those sights that could truly be implicated in contraband nuclear smuggling effort. These sites all share some common traits: (1) they are all business associates of Litvinenko and Berezovsky, (2) they are sites of Po-210 outside the restaurants, hotels, planes (public areas […]

See Correction Below There has been a lot of news out today regarding the Po-210 trail which continues to conflict with the idea that Litvinenko was poisoned as part of an assassination attempt in the Pine Bar in the Millenium Hotel between 4:30 and 5:00 PM on November 1st. The primary problem is the trail […]

Twice now Andrei Lugovoi has told reporters to wait until after January 15th before trying to get a statment from him. The first mention was here, in a bizarre cameo quote by Lugovoi in regards to the two week holiday period in Russia around Christmas and New Years: “Call me after the 15th,” Andrei Lugovoi, […]

The reality of the situation regarding Litvinenko is finally being treated with some seriousness. Litvinenko is an example of what could happen on a massive scale with materials like Po-210 (which is supposedly not controlled by the IAEA like its more infamous cousins Uranium and Plutonium). I speculated just yesterday that the Po-210 that is […]

This has been a bad week for Londoners and those who visited the city last October. After a 4th hotel was implicated in the Po-210 trail and smuggling recently we find today another restaurant is added to the sites where Po-210 was tracked. An Italian restaurant in Mayfair is the latest location to be contaminated […]

check updates at the very end I have been following the Litvinenko story from day one, and on day one I suspected it was not an assassination but the accidental exposure of a nuclear contraband smuggling effort. As we have watched the case and evidence unfold we have discovered more and more evidence that the […]