Dead Russian Spy - More Than Meets the Eye

before he was poisoned, Litvinenko (being and israeli double agent) had just got back from passing information to someone in israel about Yukos  - the same company that this article says is now controlled by Rothschild, the most powerful man in England.

In addition, there have a been a number of 'hits' against powerful bankers, etc. in Europe and in Russia, as well as powerful persons connected to Yukos.

Not to mention the WaPo article about israel's debt to Iran which reveals that Rothschild owns oil interests in israel, too.

That doesn't "prove" anything but sheds a mighty lot of suspicion as to who's behind Litvinenko.

It certainly appears to be a continuing power struggle between GIANT oil and banking interests in London, Tel Aviv, and Moscow.

Conspiracy theories on spy's death multiplying

By Erika Niedowski, Sun Foreign Reporter | Originally published December 8, 2006 

MOSCOW - The air here is so thick with speculation about the poisoning death of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko that there are now conspiracy theories about the conspiracy theories.

First, a recap of the best, or worst, of them:

Litvinenko was killed by the Kremlin.

Litvinenko was killed by someone who wanted to make it look like he was killed by the Kremlin.

Litvinenko killed himself to make it look like he was killed by the Kremlin.

Litvinenko was killed accidentally while building a nuclear bomb for Chechen rebels - or while smuggling radioactive materials to earn desperately needed money.

Litvinenko really isn't dead at all.

Perhaps the only thing Russia and Britain agree on as the investigation into Litvinenko's death Nov. 23 in London unfolds is this: Enough with the sensational, unsubstantiated conjecture.

But that message, it turns out, has been drowned out by all the sensational, unsubstantiated conjecture, fed by almost daily twists that only add to the intrigue.

Yesterday, the news agency Interfax reported that a key witness in the case, Dmitry Kovtun, who met with Litvinenko shortly before he fell ill, was critically ill himself with radiation poisoning and was in a coma in Moscow. But that report was dismissed by a lawyer close to Kovtun.

Litvinenko, who was buried yesterday in London, allegedly penned a deathbed missive pointing the finger at Russia's president, Vladimir V. Putin.

While the West has focused on theories implicating Putin or the Federal Security Service, the successor agency to the KGB, the largely compliant media here have lent far more ink to those placing blame virtually everywhere else.

One theory holds that Litvinenko's friend and associate, the self-exiled oligarch Boris Berezovsky, himself bumped off Litvinenko (Berezovsky has denied this). Others claim it was CIA-backed Chechen militants, or another American-financed double agent from Italy with whom Litvinenko also met just before becoming sick.

It has been suggested that Litvinenko was poisoned by tobacco, since cigarettes naturally contain polonium (though a former member of Russia's parliament later pointed out that Litvinenko didn't smoke).

"For some reason, some journalists" - including those in the West - "they started blaming the president and Russian security services without any real information," complained Vladimir Demchenko, a reporter for Izvestia, which is owned by the state-run gas monopoly Gazprom and which has all but promoted the theory that Berezovsky is, in one way or another, to blame.

Demchenko co-authored a recent article exploring several theories, including ones that had Berezovsky and Litvinenko building a dirty bomb for Chechen guerillas or smuggling polonium. The information, he said, came from sources and "common sense."

"Mainly what we want the readers to understand from all this information and analysis is that the situation is much more complicated than it seems at first," he said. "I believe, as an individual, perhaps we should keep silent and wait until the investigation pins down certain theories. But, as a journalist, I believe it's important to give readers food for thought."

Conspiracy theorizing, both in the press and on the street, is something of a pastime here, where official information is hard to come by and the "truth" is often not true. There is a theory that several cosmonauts were once lost in space; a year ago, when Russia faced an outbreak of avian flu, a federal politician accused foreign poultry companies of giving birds the virus as a way to get business.

Litvinenko himself accused the Russian government of masterminding a series of 1999 apartment bombings in Moscow which were blamed on Chechens and used, so the allegation goes, to justify the second war there and help elect Putin president.

At times, such theorizing has risen to the very highest level of government. After the October murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya - like Litvinenko a fierce Kremlin critic - Putin himself suggested there was "reliable" evidence of a shady plot to "sacrifice" someone in the name of fomenting worldwide anti-Russian sentiment.

Many have applied that same line of thinking to the Litvinenko case. "Was Litvinenko Poisoned To Pit Russia Against The West?" the daily Komsomolskaya Pravda asked.

Evidence, it might be pointed out, is often treated as unnecessary, an afterthought, or both. Anatoly Chubais, head of Russia's electricity monopoly, who has survived multiple attempts on his life, offered none when he linked the murders of Litvinenko and Politkovskaya and the recent mysterious ailment of former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, at first thought to be another poisoning victim.

Chubais said all three attacks were part of a scheme to overthrow the current regime.

There is an opposing theory, however: Those who got to Litvinenko wanted to destabilize the situation in Russia to the point that Putin would effectively be forced to remain in office - as a kind of Great Stabilizer - beyond the end of his second and, according to the constitution, last term.

Five days after Litvinenko's death, Izvestia ran a piece under the headline "Did A Soviet Lunar Rover Kill Litvinenko?" which explained that polonium, found in Litvinenko's body, was once used in the batteries of a Soviet moon walker.

It went on to say the suicide scenario "doesn't seem all that implausible, if we assume that Litvinenko may have been suffering from some sort of fatal disease. His condition (hair loss, bone marrow destroyed) may have been connected with a course of chemotherapy. If he knew he was dying, he may have taken poison and signed whatever papers his allies brought to him."

Another newspaper, Moskovski Komsomolets, quoted former FSB head Nikolai Kovalev as saying Litvinenko and Berezovsky might have been collaborating in London on some other secret operation involving the radioactive isotope. The aim, Kovalev speculated, "might have been to provide a pretext for allegations that Russia is preparing nothing less than a radiation attack on Britain."

On the state-owned Rossiya TV channel, Litvinenko's former FSB commander, Aleksandr Gusak, was seen suggesting the poisoning could have been the work of Chechen militants trying to avenge the 1996 death of a suspect Litvinenko had questioned after a raid. The man died from shock, Gusak said, after Litvinenko stuck his finger into a gunshot wound in his shoulder.

Speaking recently on British television, British Home Secretary John Reid cautioned conspiracy theorists against treating the case like a game of Clue.

"The worst thing we can do," he said, "is speculate. We will end up with egg on our face."

erika.niedowski@baltsun.com

I definitely see your point. But, I think all this media attention is more than just a distraction, it is part of the struggle.

There is NO doubt in my mind that there is a serious power struggle taking place between the Russians and the Zionist elites in control of banking and oil.

And I am convinced that Litvinenko's murder has everything to do with it.

I have no idea.

I need more information to draw conclusions.