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newthinking

(3,982 posts)
Wed Jan 27, 2016, 11:43 PM Jan 2016

Funny how Litvinenko believed that Scarmella killed him until he died

Trump is an idiot, but this whole inquiry was much more sordid and not at all what is being claimed. I doubt anyone will know what really happened in our lifetimes.

The history seems to not be part of the inquiry.

Litvineko accused Scaramella (not the two mentioned in this inquiry) until the end. It was Alexander Goldfarb, working for a Russian Oligarch that produced the claimed statement after his death. First the he claimed that Litvinenko wrote the statement in Russian and he had translated it. Then he later recanted and said that Litvenenko had verbally made the confession and he hadwritten it down in English (Litvinenko did not speak english).

Interestingly Mr. Scaramella was a Nuclear Expert and seems to have had links to the CIA...

The Litvinenko murder: Scaramella - The Italian Connection - The Independent (UK)

Mr Litvinenko accused Mr Scaramella of poisoning him from the day he first fell ill: as the Italian told me, his name was all over Russian and Chechen websites as the main suspect in the poisoning of the former FSB agent long before the story hit the British press. Mr Litvinenko retained his suspicion right up to his death.


Wikipedia:

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

"Mario Scaramella (born 23 April 1970[1]) is an Italian lawyer, security consultant and academic nuclear expert[2]"

http://primary.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2006/12/the_secret_life_of_mario_scaramella.htmlSLATE -
The secret life of Mario Scaramella.]

Although a baby-faced man of only 36, Scaramella claims to have been recruited several years ago by the CIA to trace relationships between South American narco-traffickers and Russian spy agencies.


I don't think anyone who reads the press/government narratives is going to really know the whole of this.
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