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311:, colonel ex-KGB agent Oleg Gordievsky, whom Scaramella claimed as his source, confirmed the accusations made against Scaramella regarding the production of false material relating to Prodi and other Italian politicians, and underlined their lack of reliability. Around the same period, there was the publication of telephone interceptions between
268:: "They also said so far, nobody could ever survive this poison, so it is very unlikely he could. But, if he doesn't collapse in three months, there is a kind of hope ... They said that every six months ... the radioactivity decreases by half." Later news suggested that he had only been exposed to minute traces of polonium.
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was "one of their men". The allegations were rejected by Prodi. Litvinenko also said that "Trofimov did not exactly say that Prodi was a KGB agent, because the KGB avoids using that word." Maxim said that he was paid €200 in cash to translate on the day
Scaramella recorded the video. Scaramella paid
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Litvinenko's brother Maxim, who lives in Italy, told that
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Scaramella. In the wiretaps, Guzzanti made it clear that the true intent of the Mitrokhin Commission was to support the hypothesis that Prodi would have been an agent financed or in any case manipulated by Moscow and the KGB. As a result, Scaramella was charged for
361:, who was arrested in July 2006 for the same reason, were some of the informers, alongside Scaramella, of Guzzanti. According to Salvitti, beside targeting Prodi and his staff, this network also aimed at defaming General Giuseppe Cucchi (the then director of the
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of a video camera in early 2006 in Rome. Litvinenko said that the video should not be leaked to the press. In front of the camera, he went on saying that former FSB deputy chief
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majority, it was criticized as politically motivated, as it was focused mainly on allegations against opposition figures. In
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324:. In addition to the calumny charge, the result of the claim regarding a Ukrainian official that he and Guzzanti were victim of an assassination attempt, he was charged of
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confirmed his statement. He said that his team of experts had long been involved in investigating the smuggling of radioactive material by the KGB and its successors.
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Milmo, Cahal; Popham, Peter; Bennetto, Jason (29 November 2006).
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Soviet Navy left 20 nuclear warheads in bay of Naples'
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