The Big Book of Spy Trivia by Bernadette Johnson

Author:Bernadette Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ulysses Press
Published: 2021-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

Q: Whose poisonings in England are thought to have been the work of Soviet or Russian intelligence?

A: This actually happened more than once. On September 7, 1978, in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov was stabbed in the thigh with the end of an umbrella. He thought it was an accident, but he died a few days later. The autopsy revealed that a small pellet filled with ricin was lodged in Markov’s thigh, likely injected by the assassin’s umbrella.

Nearly forty years later, in March 2018, Sergei Skripal and his visiting daughter Yulia were poisoned in Salisbury, England. Skripal and his daughter were found unconscious on a bench. Skripal had been pardoned by the previous Russian administration, but someone poisoned him with the very distinctive Russian nerve agent Novichok.

Two Russian men who were in the area are suspected of possibly putting the nerve agent on the doorknob of the Skripal home. As a result of the poisoning, the UK expelled twenty-three Russian diplomats.

After the initial attack, other victims emerged, including Detective Sergeant Nick Baily and another unidentified Metropolitan police officer, both exposed while investigating the crime. Later in June 2018, Dawn Sturgess and her partner Charlie Rowley were exposed, possibly from a bottle discarded by the poisoners. Sturgess died, but all the other victims, including the Skripals, recovered.

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