he was once a kgb agent, bu turned into a local critic o russia when he was poisoned an london and made headline around the world a lethal toxin in a cup of tea it was a dirty bomb why was he killed to unravel the mystery, we follow the tail of a darke conspiracy are you threatened for your life we will meet and confront the prime suspect. did you put - in the teens and now, is the dange coming closer one man said shoe temp. an attack on the expert helping us with the story. people say this is neve going to happen here i know it can happen, here because it happened to m husband. hello, and welcome to dateline former russian agent alexander was a vocal critic of th russian government, but in his world access to informatio could make you a very rich man or a dead one. his murder set off a international investigation to discover who wanted hi silenced here s richard engel with sp games. a former russian agent, poisoned a multi millionaire found dead in
duma leader, zhirinovsky certainly did shed any tears when that happened but last of the notion that the russia state with connected in an way. fourth one simple reason he thinks russian agents would have done a better job and surprised that the uk special services and the u court accuses russia that with a bag of polonium they came to london and we re just throwing it around. it just doesn t make sens to a lot of people that russia didn t kill him. for 100 years, the russia special services have been using that kind of substance for killing people that yo never will be able t recognize. why do we have to go into some kind of bar and put it i someone s tea cup and everybod is laughing at us? i mean, the state cannot b emboldened litvinenko s friend pau joyal, who believes he was a target of a botche assassination, agrees that i some ways, litvinenko s killer were indeed clumsy and careless but he says, that s becaus
moscow two rome, two london, into a world of spies and sp catchers of corruption and those wh dare to expose it. a world in which murder happens, often. was there a hit list in my sure that there was but our story begins closer to home. on a late, winter evening, pau joyal, an intelligence analysts, was driving to his house jus outside washington d. c. it was quiet and dark. i got out of my car there were two men waiting i the bushes they jumped me one man i fought with. and we ended up on the groun in a tussle. and this one man said to someone outside i didn t see shoot him. so, i covered my heart with my arms and i turn to the side. and i was shot went through me one shot?