36. Assassination by Poisoning: Russia & The Soviet Union
SPYCRAFT 101
Litvinenko's Life Story
Litvinenko joined the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1985. He served primarily in KGB counterintelligence until 1991 when the Soviet Union itself collapsed. Afterwards he became a member of the new FSB and served during the first Chechen war. By the late 1990s he was a senior operational officer in the Directorate of Analysis and Suppression of Criminal Groups within the FSB.
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