# FSB officer duped by Alexei Navalny, reveals details of assassination attempt

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fsb-officer-duped-by-alexei-navalny-reveals-details-of-assassination-attempt/928546>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 21, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fsb-officer-duped-by-alexei-navalny-reveals-details-of-assassination-attempt/928546 "2020-12-21T16:18:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![SharltoCopley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sharltocopley/32/12309_2.png) [@SharltoCopley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SharltoCopley)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fsb-officer-duped-by-alexei-navalny-reveals-details-of-assassination-attempt/928546/1 "2020-12-21T16:18:04Z")

</div>

For those interested in the developments of the Alexei Navalny poisoning story (and the investigation ran by Bellingcat and some news agencies), Alexei posted [this](https://youtu.be/gwvA49ZXnf8) today. A long phone call in which he pretends to be a national security guy investigating the botched assassination attempts (that is, why it went wrong), and the FSB officer (a moron) just opens his heart.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Saffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saffer/32/6440_2.png) [@Saffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saffer)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fsb-officer-duped-by-alexei-navalny-reveals-details-of-assassination-attempt/928546/2 "2020-12-21T23:45:50Z")

</div>

I wonder what has happened to that FSB officer since. I watched (most of) the YouTube video. Navalny’s line of questioning and adaptability was quite clever.