Timeline for Super Spies Reality Check
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| Aug 12, 2016 at 15:07 | comment | added | Jan Hudec | @ilkkachu, well, in the Litvinenko case it was more or less found what happened, just not in time to catch anybody. But I read they probably pulled similar stunt once much earlier already and the first time around police nor counter-intelligence didn't have a slightest clue what happened. | |
| Aug 11, 2016 at 18:10 | comment | added | Thucydides | Trying to find the source turned out to be very difficult (more grey men?), but this only serves to illustrate the point. You don't want it to be easy to track down or too obvious as to who did it. | |
| Aug 11, 2016 at 17:58 | comment | added | origimbo | I'd understood that the umbrella trick was ascribed to Bulgarians rather than the Russians. Still behind the Iron curtain, but a different agency and one less affected by tit-for-tat diplomatic arguments over "cultural attachés". | |
| Aug 11, 2016 at 9:50 | comment | added | ilkkachu | If you refer to the death of Alexander Litvinenko, it was in 2006, long after the Cold War as it's usually understood. | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 19:22 | history | answered | Thucydides | CC BY-SA 3.0 |