Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

Moscow (CNN)A Russian agent sent to tail opposition leader Alexey Navalny has revealed how he was poisoned in August -- with the lethal nerve agent Novichok planted in his underpants.

The stunning disclosure from an agent who belonged to an elite toxins team in Russia's FSB security service came in a lengthy phone call following the unmasking of the unit by CNN and the online investigative outfit Bellingcat last week.

In what he was told was a debriefing, Konstantin Kudryavtsev also talked about others involved in the poisoning in the Siberian city of Tomsk, and how he was sent to clean things up.

But the agent was not speaking to an official in Russia's National Security Council as he thought. He was talking to Navalny himself, who almost died after being poisoned in August.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/21/europe/russia-navalny-poisoning-underpants-ward/index.html

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[hlthe2b]

1. Navalny is an unbelievably courageous and dedicated man.

Too bad, Russia is unlikely to ever reward him (and themselves) with his leadership.

[onetexan]

8. +1 K&R

[bucolic_frolic]

2. The Russian agent thought Russia was listening

[Beakybird]

3. How delightfully cunning. Nice to see the tables turned!

[Wicked Blue]

4. How soon will this agent fall from a window?

With fatal stab wounds.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. 2020 scriptwriter: "do you think we can get away with poisoned underpants?"

Script editor: "yeah, that'll fit in fine with everything else we've thrown in."

[pandr32]

6. What a stunning sting!

The whole recounted assassination plot is like a movie script. Thank goodness Alexey Navalny survived. I doubt the duped assassin will, though.

[robbob]

7. Debriefing probably saved his life...

(Sorry, couldn’t resist...)

[VWolf]

9. I see what you did there!

[colorado_ufo]

10. Most excellent!

You wins the Internet today!

[Stuart G]

11. Thank You For Posting This..This Is Unbelievable.

Konstantin Kudryavtsev will pay for this mistake. And I think that others will pay too. This is not something that should be international news. Hard to believe this this is international news today.........................
................................... I guess everyone makes ..."mistakes."...................................................

[Buckeye_Democrat]

12. It's good to know that Trump is better than Putin.

Putin tries to assassinate his opponents, but I recently learned from a DU jury that Trump possibly trying the same is "kooky". So thanks for showing me that, logically, Trump isn't that bad despite how he's a sociopathic piece of crap.

[SunSeeker]

13. Trump killed 300k of us by intentionally following a "herd immunity" strategy of "infect everyone."

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So, he's definitely one-upted Putin in the body count department.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

14. I was being sarcastic, but didn't label it as such.

I'm still a little butt-hurt by my recent post that was hidden, when I didn't think it was "kooky" at all as far as Trump is concerned! (My appeal failed.) And it was mostly a thread that was asking what would happen IF he did something horrible in regard to the election anyway, but I won't repeat it and have it happen to me again. (Google finally helped me answer it, but it took awhile.)

[ck4829]

15. K&R