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36. Assassination by Poisoning: Russia & The Soviet Union

SPYCRAFT 101

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Novichok Nerve Agent - A Russian Assassination Weapon in Disguise

Two GRU agents were sent to the Czech Republic four years ago. They posed as arms buyers from an international corporation and targeted warehouses storing ammunition bound for eastern Ukraine. A Salisbury resident named Charlie Rowley found a bottle of Novichok in the donations been of a local charity shop where the assassins had placed it back in its original perfume box. Thinking it was just regular perfume, he presented it to his girlfriend Dawn Sturgis who immediately passed away after using it. There are also many other suspicious deaths and illnesses over the years which don't have any clear resolution. These attacks are still going on and there's no sign that they're going to stop anytime soon.

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