WikiLeaks cables: Russia ‘was tracking killers of Alexander Litvinenko but UK warned it off’

Claim that British intelligence was incompetent will deepen diplomatic row sparked by move to deport MP’s Russian researcher Alexander Litvinenko, in intensive care shortly before his death from poisoning at University College Hospital, London, in 2006. Photograph: Natasja Weitsz/Getty Images Russia was tracking the assassins of dissident spy Alexander Litvinenko before he was poisoned but was warned off by Britain, which said the situation was “under control”, according to claims made in a leaked US diplomatic cable. The secret memo, recording a 2006 meeting between an ex-CIA bureau chief and a former KGB officer, is set to reignite the diplomatic row surrounding Litvinenko’s unsolved…

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WikiLeaks cables: Russia ‘was tracking killers of Alexander Litvinenko but UK warned it off’

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