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| 24.11.200913:23 (GMT) | The former Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officer Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned in November, 2006, in London, could have been murdered because he was giving evidence on ties between the Italian politicians and the KGB and the FSB, Italian parliament member Paolo Guzzanti told in an interview to Radio Liberty.
Paolo Guzzanti headed the so-called Mitrokhin's commission which in 2002-2006 was engaged in studying of the documents taken out from the USSR by the former employee of the KGB archive Vasily Mitrokhin. Three months ago Guzzanti published a book, My Agent Sasha, declaring that Litvinenko had been the main informer of the commission.
"The probability that Litvinenko was killed because of Mitrokhin's commission, is rather high,” Guzzanti told the radio, emphasizing that Putin had really had serious interest in disruption of the commission’s work. In the day of poisoning, a member of commission, Mario Scaramella, met with Litvinenko. He had arrived to tell him about threats addressed to both of them by an e-mail. Guzzanti concedes that these threats could be sent intentionally to arrange a meeting to cast suspicions on Scaramella.
Guzzanti already for a long time has stated that Litvinenko was killed for the compromising information on former Italy’s Prime Minister Romano Prodi. He wrote earlier that the same compromising evidence was the reason of murder of Russian journalist Ivan Safronov in 2007 and the FSB General Anatoly Trofimov in 2005.
Mitrokhin's commission established that Prodi had been connected with the KGB, but the Italian newspapers did not become interested in it, according to Guzzanti. He says the criticism of the Russian secret services and Vladimir Putin is simply forbidden in Italy as Prime Minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi is a friend of Putin.
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