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triron

(21,999 posts) Fri Mar 30, 2018, 12:44 AM Mar 2018

NBCnews: Christopher Steele on Kremlin's hit list

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russian-ex-spy-says-he-was-kremlin-hit-list-along-n860641

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NBCnews: Christopher Steele on Kremlin's hit list (Original Post) triron Mar 2018 OP

Here's a snip. herding cats Mar 2018 #1

Thanks! Rhiannon12866 Mar 2018 #3

Richard Engel will do show on this Friday night 9 p.m. MSNBC FakeNoose Mar 2018 #2

I've been waiting all evening for someone to post this. BadgerMom Mar 2018 #4

I mis-read the title as Christopher Steele on Kremlin shit list, but same difference I guess! Canoe52 Mar 2018 #5

Could others with power do the same? duforsure Mar 2018 #6

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Fri Mar 30, 2018, 12:51 AM

Mar 2018

Russian ex-spy says he was on Kremlin 'hit list' along with poisoned Skripal

"Something is probably going to happen,'" Boris Karpichkov says his old friend told him. "It's very serious, and you are not alone."

LONDON — The former Russian double agent got a terrifying message on his birthday: He was on a Kremlin hit list along with Sergei Skripal, another ex-spy who weeks later was poisoned with a nerve agent in a case Britain blames on Vladimir Putin's government.

"Be careful, look around, something is probably going to happen,'" the former agent, Boris Karpichkov, says an old friend told him on the telephone in mid-February. "It's very serious, and you are not alone."

Among the names on the list was that of Skripal, whom Karpichkov didn't know at the time but whose poisoning alongside his daughter, Yulia, on March 4 on British soil inflamed tensions between the Kremlin and the West and triggered international condemnation. The two are in a hospital in Britain, where Skripal is in critical condition. Yulia is "improving rapidly" and is no longer in critical condition, the hospital treating the pair said Thursday.

Also on the Kremlin's list, he says, were several other ex-KGB agents, as well as Christopher Steele, author of a 35-page dossier alleging collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign. Bill Browder, the driving force behind a set of U.S. sanctions against Russian individuals known as the Magnitsky Act, was there as well, he adds.