Poisoned spy ‘was a traitor working for the British secret services’

[Joanne98]

Alexander Litvinenko was a traitor who would have deserved execution in Soviet times, his former chief in Russia’s security service said last night.

Alexander Gusak accused Litvinenko of helping British secret services unmask Russian spies after he fled to London from Moscow. He claimed that furious agents considered assassinating him in revenge.

“I consider him a direct traitor because he betrayed what is most sacred for any operative — his operational sources. His sources came to me and they complained that your secret service officers had found them, and asked what to do,” Mr Gusak said.

Mr Gusak was Litvinenko’s former commander in the Organised Crime Division of the FSB, the successor to the Soviet KGB. He left the service in 1998, the same year that Litvinenko caused a sensation in Moscow by exposing an FSB plan to assassinate the billionaire oligarch Boris Berezovsky.

Mr Gusak, who now works as a lawyer, admitted that there had indeed been talk of a plot to kill Mr Berezovsky. But he insisted that Litvinenko was guilty of betraying his country.

“What Litvinenko did comes under Article 275 of the criminal code. It’s called treason. And there are sanctions; prescribed punishments. Up to 20 years in prison.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1350687.ece

[Robeson]

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