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kpete

(71,963 posts)
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 03:55 PM Jan 2017

Kremlin COVERED-UP Murder of KGB Chief Who Did Trump Dossier



#BREAKING:KREMLIN COVERED UP MURDER OF KGB CHIEF WHO DID #TRUMP DOSSIER

Former KGB general who helped MI6 spy compile the Donald Trump dirty dossier is found dead in the back of his car amid claims of a Kremlin cover up
Oleg Erovinkin was found dead on Boxing Day in the back of his black Lexus
The morgue in Russia has not reached a conclusion about the cause of death
Local media is claiming foul play was at the centre of him being killed in Moscow
It has been claimed Erovinkin is a key source mentioned in the explosive dossier


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4166610/Kremlin-covered-murder-former-KGB-chief.html#ixzz4X5WVP6HJ
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BadgerMom

(2,770 posts)
9. Actually
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 04:31 PM
Jan 2017

I'm not sure what to make of the fact that the original story in December suggested suicide. Today's story points to retribution for helping with the dossier. That was glanced over in December. There are more reputable news sources than the Daily Mail covering this story today. Honestly, I'm waiting for the New Yorker or Rolling Stone or The NY Times or WaPo to do a complete job of connecting dots. I'm sorry I don't have links right now.

Raster

(20,998 posts)
17. the challenge is trying to make deaths as innocuous as possible...
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 05:27 PM
Jan 2017

...for example: "we have no idea how Alexander Litvinenko could have ingested polinium...he could have picked it up ANYWHERE."

The above is not, of course, a direct quote. Just a paraphrasing of the "official" Russian reaction to the suggestion that the Russian security apparatus was responsible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko

Alexander Litvinenko was a former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and KGB, who fled from court prosecution in Russia and received political asylum in the United Kingdom.

On November 1, 2006, Litvinenko suddenly fell ill and was hospitalized. He died three weeks later, becoming the first confirmed victim of lethal polonium-210-induced acute radiation syndrome. Litvinenko's allegations about the misdeeds of the FSB and his public deathbed accusations that Russian president Vladimir Putin was behind his unusual malady resulted in worldwide media coverage.

Subsequent investigations by British authorities into the circumstances of Litvinenko's death led to serious diplomatic difficulties between the British and Russian governments. During the 2014–2015 trial the Scotland Yard representative witnessed that "the evidence suggests that the only credible explanation is in one way or another the Russian state is involved in Litvinenko's murder".

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Hekate

(90,560 posts)
11. For a KGB officer, poison or the knife kind of is "natural causes"....
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 04:50 PM
Jan 2017

As Sir Terry Pratchett observed of the king who fell down a flight of stairs with his own knife between his shoulder blades.

I myself would posit that working for Putin is rather suicidal on the face of it.

Stuart G

(38,414 posts)
4. I guess that this sentencs says all .........
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 03:59 PM
Jan 2017

"It has been claimed Erovinkin is a key source mentioned in the explosive dossier"

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,852 posts)
8. Wow.
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 04:07 PM
Jan 2017
The suspected murder victim was close to former deputy prime minister Igor Sechin, who is named throughout the leaked memo, according to the Telegraph.

Erovinkin is understood to have been an important link between Sechin and leader of the Kremlin Vladimir Putin.

Agent Steele's dossier, which was made public earlier this month, noted how he had a source close to Sechin.

ecstatic

(32,653 posts)
15. Will this start happening to U.S. journalists and critics of Trump?
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 05:11 PM
Jan 2017

And will republicans act like it's all just a crazy coincidence?

erronis

(15,183 posts)
19. Watch your mouth, ecstatic
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 06:11 PM
Jan 2017

The little trumpettes are paying attention. We're all critics of strump. (OBTW, being critical doesn't necessarily mean being negative, however....)

I remember all those cartoons of the 'uglican candidates crammed into a clown car. One was the joker and he doesn't have a sense of humor.

Leghorn21

(13,523 posts)
20. I keep thinking that the answer to this is a solid "yes indeed"
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 06:16 PM
Jan 2017

And I bet there are more than a few repugs whose eyes are spinning in their heads the way mine are and wondering wtf have I stepped into here -

Putin/Surkov/DUGIN (just learned of him here yesterday from a terrific post by a Russian citizen who now resides in CA)

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