Polonium 210

[Rhisiart]

Putin?

[symphonix]

Que?

[mallybristol]

at a wild guess, he's referring to the russian spy killed in London last month:

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ne...nG=Search+News

[ora]

Nah, even if its the russians, Putin it too smart to have known directly about it.

[symphonix]

Ahhhh ... (The meaning of the question finally clicks).

The whole Polonium thing worried me at first, but now I figure its the secretive world of spies and espionage just doing the same old things that they've been doing for fifty years. I remember from Spycatcher a story about the MI6's "Black Museum" which includes a tiny ball bearing used to kill a Russian defector in London in the sixties. It was loaded wih some sort of poison, and injected with a jab from an umbrella tip on a crowded train.

The only reason people even noticed this time is that it happened in London, and the story reached the press.

[lurk]

The poison was Ricin, a product of the same plant that gigs us the ever so delectable castor oil every child so craves! Yummy!

[ora]

Originally Posted by symphonix

The only reason people even noticed this time is that it happened in London, and the story reached the press.

Kinda, but this is just so like a particularly bad episode of the abysmal show Spooks (I met a few of the staff once and if you can believe it they don't even have their tongue in their cheeks, they think they are making serious drama!!!). Its an unusual poison and its shown up all over the place. I heard via a friend that the Health Protection Agency people are literally able to follow every door the guy touched from what he was sweating out. That and the polluted Itsu branch, grounded BA planes, guy in Ireland getting sick,t he weird Scaramella chap. If this is how the spy world works (and from the intelligence agency staff I've met its pretty much NEVER like this) then they never want it this much in the public eye, and this was never gonna stay quiet.

I find the whole thing some kind of exercise in surreal black comedy.