# Thallium Poisoning? The KGB Has Not Lost Its Touch.

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**Created:** [November 20, 2006, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thallium-poisoning-the-kgb-has-not-lost-its-touch/381086 "2006-11-20T00:23:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thallium-poisoning-the-kgb-has-not-lost-its-touch/381086/21 "2007-05-22T22:21:20Z")

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[Possible break in Polonuim murder.](http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKL2239639520070522?src=052207_1315_TOPSTORY_ex-spy_accused_of_litvinenko_murder)

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> A trail of radioactive contamination – from aircraft to hotels, restaurants, offices and even a football stadium – led investigators time and again to one man as they probed the murder of Alexander Litvinenko.
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> British prosecutors on Tuesday named Andrei Lugovoy, a Russian businessman who had worked for the Soviet KGB security service, as the man who murdered exiled dissident Litvinenko with radioactive polonium 210 in London last November.
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> Lugovoy has denied killing Litvinenko and on Tuesday dismissed the accusation as politically motivated. He has however acknowledged meeting Litvinenko on each of three separate visits to London last October.

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