a few weeks after litvinenko died of polonium poisoning, kovtun was hospitalized and lost all his hair. he hasn t been seen publicly since 2012. that left lugovoi. when we got here, he didn t want to speak to us, but on the second day of our trip, he called and said he was ready to talk. coming up, we ask the question the world wants answered. did you put polonium in the tea? when dateline continues. a? when dateline continues oh, come on! sriracha? woo! don t fight your cravings. eat em. all the flavors you crave in a superfood. blue diamond almonds. crave victoriously. geico would like to take a moment to say thank you to our military service members at home and abroad for all their hard work and sacrifice. we all sleep easier knowing you re out there
so scotland yard took a hard look at the two russians, lugovoi and kovtun. when detectives retraced their steps, they found polonium contamination everywhere. we see the same fingerprints of the polonium in multiple places where they were. business offices, hotels, a hookah bar, a strip club, a soccer stadium. and the millennium hotel s pine bar where they last met litvinenko? that s were investigators hit the jackpot. these 3-d graphics put together by scotland yard, show the entire pine bar was contaminated with polonium with extreme hot spots on a table and chair. and the levels found inside this teapot? off the charts. paul joyal wonders how many people were unwittingly exposed. do we know, ultimately, what the final cost of this use of polonium is?
that mi-6 began paying him a monthly salary, trading information for money was one way for a former russian agent to make a living in his new home in london. then suddenly in 2006 litvinenko, who had always been fit and healthy, got very sick. it was just incredibly strong and heavy sickness, just suddenly and not stopping. litvinenko s wife marina watched him waste away in a matter of just days. oh, it was awful. his hair started to be to fall out. yes, and he started to look like a cancer patient treated by chemotherapy. i knew he was going through unspeakable torment.
he was a law enforcement officer. he worked for the equivalent of the fbi. yeah, i mean what he was most interested in. in anti-corruption. anti-corruption is what really he was most interested in. his name was alexander litvinenko, sasha to his friends. but his interest in fighting corruption had made him a lot of enemies, including in his own agency, the kgb, which was renamed the fsb. litvinenko was forced to flee russia with his wife and son and seek asylum in london where he quickly caught the attention of agents of the british intelligence service mi-6. glenmore trenear harvey was a retired and very charming mi-6 analyst who was asked to befriend litvinenko. the british wanted to find out what he knew about his former colleagues in the russian secret services. was he credible? oh, yes, he was. reporter: credible enough
coming. thank you very much for talking to us. in the duma, russia s parliament, the pugnacious leader of the ultra-nationalist party has nothing but disdain for litvinenko. translator: who needs this little petty person? he was just a piece of rubbish. vladimir zhirinovsky told us that here in russia litvinenko made plenty of enemies going back years. back in the 1990s, russia was in chaos after the collapse of the soviet union. it was a time when enormous fortunes were created and outrageous crimes committed, sometimes by the very people sent to investigate them. back then, alexander litvinenko was a young fsb agent who claimed to be disturbed by what he saw. litvinenko specialized in organized crime investigations but became obsessed with what he believed to be corruption within