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
in there without you noticing? translator: no. why don t you think the polonium may have been put there into the cup after our meeting the next day or by a guy from mi-6? he brings the polonium and pours it into the cup. that s agatha christie stuff. mi-6 is british intelligence. lugovoi says perhaps the brits killed litvinenko to embarrass russia. retired mi-6 analyst glenmore trenear-harvey says that s nonsense if for no other reason because mi-6 would never use such an expensive weapon to kill anyone. if the british wanted to kill him, then he would have fallen out of a hotel window. he would have been placed in front of a car. we d have spent $12 million in a slightly more cost-effective fashion. you would have made it look like an accident? indeed. things are done less expensively, more cost
in there without you noticing? translator: no. why don t you think the polonium may have been put there into the cup after our meeting the next day or by a guy from mi-6? he brings the polonium and pours it into the cup. that s agatha christie stuff. reporter: mi-6 is british intelligence. lugovoi says perhaps the brits killed litvinenko to embarrass russia. retired mi-6 analyst glenmore trenear-harvey says that s nonsense if for no other reason because mi-6 would never use such an expensive weapon to kill anyone. if the british wanted to kill him, then he would have fallen out of a hotel window. he would have been placed in front of a car. we d have spent $12 million in a slightly more cost-effective fashion. reporter: you would have made it look like an accident? indeed. things are done less expensively, more cost effectively. old-fashioned bullets in bodies work rather effectively and quite cheaply.
shot. he was a law enforcement officer. reporter: he worked for the equivalent of the fbi? yeah, i mean reporter: in anti-corrputon? anti-corruption is what really he was most interested in. reporter: 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
with us to london to tell us the story of what happened to an important contact of his just a few months before joyal was shot. he was a law enforcement officer. reporter: he worked for the equivalent of the fbi? yeah, i mean reporter: in anti-corrputon? anti-corruption is what really he was most interested in. reporter: 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.