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36. Assassination by Poisoning: Russia & The Soviet Union

SPYCRAFT 101

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Zzjenski's Double-Barreled Gas Gun

Two years later, in 1959, Zzjenski was told to kill another Ukrainian expatriate leader named Steppen Bandera. This time he was given a double-barreled gas gun that sprayed liquid cyanide when triggered. He waited for Bandera outside the man's apartment one day and met him on the third floor landing as Bandera returned home. Although he killed two people on the orders of the Soviet government, this was never what Zz jenski had intended when he joined the NKVD against his own will so many years earlier.

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