List of Applications of Special Means - Poisonings
             
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           Below we listed only several cases, which received public attention due to the prominent 
           status of that or other figure, as for the rest of the victims – no one counted them. 
           According to the opinion of the International Alternative Court as a result of combined 
           application of chemical, biological and electromagnetic weapons to millions of innocent people, 
           the country became a concentration camp of a dispersed type, special services conduct a 
           quite extermination of population on a massive scale:
                http://www.asud.us/ (accessed on July 29, 2008).             
                  
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                    Autumn 2006
                  
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Epidemic of mass poisonings or what hid behind the Litvinenko case.
  
Returning to the topic of the investigation into the causes of death of the former 
Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko in November 2006, we would like to 
express our own view of this case, starting with the event of the autumn of 2006 in Russia. 
  
The “Litvinenko case” was shortly preceded in the autumn of 2006 by an unprecedented 
epidemic of mass poisoning with alcohol products containing an unidentified strong 
poisoning substance in 22 regions of Russia, as well as in four neighboring countries: 
Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine. Poisonings diagnosed as “toxic hepatitis” occurred 
to individuals as well as to different groups of people, such as weddings, with up to tens of 
lethal outcomes simultaneously in each case. "Such wide geographically spread, but localized in 
time mass poisoning is unprecedented in contemporary history"
[ 1 ].
According to the investigation by the Novaya Gazeta newspaper both the Chief Federal 
Public Health Doctor of the Russian Federation Gennady Onishchenko followed by the 
Minister of Health and Social Development Mikhail Zurabov saw traces of an anti 
governmental conspiracy in the string of mass poisonings.
In Zurabov's opinion, the mass poisoning of the population 
with contaminated alcohol was a “planned action”, which means an act of sabotage.
  
However, in the end of November 2006, the Litvinenko case broke out, which diverted 
to itself all public attention and buried under itself the federal prosecutor’s 
investigation to identify a single source of poisonings. Apparently the upcoming 
investigation was about to come close to such deep and untouchable global forces and 
structures, that extraordinary measures were required.
  
Notably that in attempts to comprehend the Litvinenko case by the public, the biggest 
topic was not who and for what purpose poisoned him, but the bewilderment over why such 
a demonstratively exotic method was chosen when there were other methods available that 
leave no traces. Someone said: “to shock the World”. This can be translated as follows: 
to give the media a material to spin that was so exotic and shocking, that could not 
fail to create a widest resonance with its sensationalism and by doing so to eclipse 
and remove from the agenda the very subject and details of other events that were, 
according to the organizers of the Litvinenko case, banned from public discourse. 
As well as to help form a stereotype of thinking that no deliberate poisoning involving 
special services, other than exotic, should any longer attract public attention.
  
Isn’t that why the case of the “toxic hepatitis” with thousands of people who perished 
or got disabled because of it still remains without an answer, and no one has mentioned 
about it since.
  
In our opinion the pattern of an exotic and staged Litvinenko case was used in the past 
and will be used in the future as a mechanism of diversion of public’s attention.
  
February 2016.
  
P.S. On March 4-th 2018 media announced of another victim of deliberate poisoning. 
This time it was a former Russian Military Intelligence officer S. V. Skripal and his daughter.
  
http://2006.novayagazeta.ru/nomer/2006/82n/n82n-s00.shtm
[ 1 ]
 
http://2006.novayagazeta.ru/nomer/2006/89n/n89n-s00.shtm
[ 2 ]
 
http://2006.novayagazeta.ru/nomer/2006/83n/n83n-s09.shtml
[ 3 ]
 
http://newdaynews.ru/society/89843.html
[ 4 ]
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_Skripal
 
                  
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                    April 1993
                  
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                  Turgut Ozal, the President of Turkey since 1989 to 1993 died suddenly on 
                  April 17, 1993 while serving in office when he was 66 years old at an Ancara  hospital. 
                  He died of a suspicious heart attack leading some to believe in an assassination 
                  plot by deliberate poisoning. Doctors at Houston's Methodist Hospital, where Ozal underwent 
                  an extensive medical check-up in early 1993, had found the late president's heart healthy 
                  just two-and-a-half months before his death.
                  
  
                  Turgut Ozal's remains were exhumed on October 2, 2012, on the orders of the Prosecutor's 
                  Office in Ankara, on the grounds that his death remains suspicious. 
                  
  
                  According to a leaked autopsy report prepared by the Forensic Medicine Institute, 
                  doctors who conducted the autopsy found in his body a high level of "strychnine creatine" 
                  - a powerful poison that leads to respiratory arrest in 15-20 minutes and could also 
                  cause a heart attack.
                  http://www.todayszaman.com/news-301015-ozals-heart-diagnosis-by-us-hospital-raises-poisoning-suspicions.html
                  
  
                  His wife Semra Ozal has claimed for years that he was poisoned. According to her words 
                  the documents, which confirm poisoning and which were transferred by the relatives of 
                  the deceased to the investigative authorities were destroyed, blood test results went 
                  missing and a parliamentary inquiry, which had been initiated on her son’s official 
                  request when he was a Member of the Parliament was interrupted. She assured that the 
                  family intends to bring the investigation to the end.
                  http://www.aze.az/news_turqut_ozal_byl_84151.html
                  
  
                  The Kurdish separatists have repeatedly stated that Ozal was poisoned by the Turkish 
                  special services. 
                  http://lenta.ru/news/2012/11/02/ozal/
                  
  
                  Later on November 26, 2012 daily Zaman reported that an autopsy of the exhumed remains 
                  of Turgut Ozal, revealed the presence of four poisoning substances. Pathologists discovered 
                  the presence of banned insecticide DDT at 10 times the level considered normal.                   
                  "Experts also detected the presence of cadmium, a chemical element, in his body. 
                  In addition, experts also found the radioactive elements americium, a transuranic 
                  radioactive chemical element, and polonium in Ozal's remains.                   
                  According to the experts, the former president's body was weakened with americium and 
                  polonium over a long period of time (emphasis ours), and with the use of DDT, ingested in food or drink, 
                  his death was accelerated."
                  http://www.todayszaman.com/news-299359-poisonous-substances-found-in-ozals-organsand-tissues-not-in-soil.html
                   
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                    November 2011
                  
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                    Neil Heywood, the British businessman. Gu Kailai, the wife of ousted 
                    Communist Party official Bo Xilai, was found guilty and given a suspended 
                    death sentence on Aug. 20, 2012 for the murder of British businessman 
                    Neil Heywood in China on Nov. 15, 2011.
                     
                    Zhang Xiaojun, a Bo family aide and an accomplice, was also found guilty 
                    and given a sentence for his role in the murder.
                     
                    At their trial on Aug. 9, 2012  Ms. Gu and Mr. Zhang didn't contest charges 
                    that they murdered Mr. Heywood Nov. 15, 2011 in his hotel room by pouring 
                    cyanide into his mouth after he became drunk, vomited and sought a drink 
                    of water. The British government denied that Neil Heywood was agent of 
                    British intelligence MI-6. 
                     
                    [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Heywood ]
                     
                    [ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444443504577599122598686102.html?mod=googlenews_wsj ]
                     
                    Washington Post correspondent wrote, referring to the statements of 
                    prosecution that Gu Kailai acquired a poison containing cyanide. 
                    He claims that the poison was purchased from a local dealer by a 
                    functionary of the local district Committee of the Communist party. 
                     
                    [ http://cripo.com.ua/?sect_id=10&aid=140393 ]
                      
                     
                    An attempt was made to disguise the murder by alcohol poisoning and tossing drugs - 
                    a typical method for masking murders and arrangement of various kinds of provocations, 
                    "the action" is usually held at a neutral venue - a hotel, a restaurant, etc. 
                    The initial official cause of death sounded exactly the same - alcohol poisoning.
                    Strangely enough, Mr. Heywood was never given an official autopsy and the body was 
                    quickly cremated. 
                     
                    
                    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9205859/Neil-Heywood-was-poisoned-with-cyanide-official-Chinese-report-reveals.html
                     
                     
					This case can be used to demonstrate how the disguise of poisoning is accomplished:  
					
					
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					The first level of concealment - attribute it to the victim by tossing drugs and imitating an
					alcohol poisoning - put the blame on the victim. Since the first primitive version has failed, 
					the second one was set off:
					
 
					 
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					the killer is a loner, the toxic substance – a household chemical.
					But this version was also discredited by the lack of autopsy and hasty cremation, that is, 
					by inability to corroborate the story by the expert evidence, which suggests: 
					
 
					 
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					shielding a collective perpetrator (collusion) and the use of special means - 
					special substances for covert elimination.
					
 
					 
                   
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                    2008
                  
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                    Several friends of Kirill Kabanov, the head of the National Anti-Corruption Committee were poisoned. 
                    Kabanov investigated some of the Putin era's biggest corruption cases with this 
                    nongovernmental organization after leaving the FSB, losing friends to various poisons along the way. 
                     
                    http://www.newsweek.com/id/148930/output/print
                                                                                                                         
                   
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                    May, 2008
                  
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                    One-and-a-half year old son of Eduard Limonov, Russian writer and political dissident, 
                    was given a poisoned pacifier in a park by two unknown young men and a young woman in an 
                    attempt to poison him. 
                                                        
                     
                    
                    http://www.lenta.ru/news/2008/05/06/poison/
                                                                                                                         
                   
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                    October, 2006
                  
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                    Luzius Wildhaber, the former president of the European court of human rights  
                    claimed he was poisoned during a visit to Russia in late October 2006 - three days before 
                    the former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko was fatally poisoned. On his return to 
                    his home city of Basle, Mr Wildhaber collapsed. Doctors diagnosed severe blood poisoning 
                    and said that when an ambulance arrived at his house he was minutes from death. 
                    Another Swiss lawyer who had gone with him on the trip to the city of Vladimir in 
                    Russia had also fallen ill.
                     
                    
                    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/feb/01/russia.topstories3
            
                   
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                    September, 2004
                  
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                    Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine since 2005 became seriously ill in early September 2004. 
                    On December 11, Austrian doctors confirmed Yushchenko had been poisoned with TCDD dioxin, most likely 
                    orally administered, and had more than 1,000 times (other sources said 6,000 times) the usual 
                    concentration of dioxin in his body. There are theories that russian special services are linked 
                    to the poisoning.
                     
                    
                    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yushchenko#Dioxin_p
                                       
                   
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                    November, 2001
                  
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                    Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik, the head of the Soviet bioweapons program at the
                    Biopreparat facility, a world-class microbiologist and a high-profile Russian defector 
                    to the UK in 1989, was found dead in Wiltshire, England, not far from his home. 
                    He was in good health and died suddenly from a stroke. A nerve agent that mimics
                    a stroke and leaves no traces was believed to be the cause of the death.
                     
                    Pasechnik's death began a string of mysterious deaths and obvious murders of world-class microbiologists. 
                    Dr. Kelly's death was one of those. They were closely associated with the kind of 
                    highly-specialised work Pasechnik was doing.
                                        
                    http://www.stevequayle.com/News.alert/03_Disease/031121.dead.scientists.html
                     
                    
                    http://www.rense.com/general43/helly2.htm
                   
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                    1997
                  
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                    Hamas leader, Khaled Meshal. Israeli agents in Jordan injected a poison into 
                    Khaled Meshal, later delivering an antidote under international pressure to save his life. 
                    [56; 106.5]*
                    
                   
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                    August, 1995
                  
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                    A Russian banker, Rosbiznesbank Chairman Ivan Kivelidi, and his secretary died after 
                    coming in contact with a telephone receiver dosed with poison from chemical weapons arcenal. 
                    In December 2007 the Moscow Zamoskvoretsky Court finds Rosbiznesbank deputy chirman 
                    Vladimir Khutsishvili guilty of murders. [ Sentencing of Kivelidi's killer took place 
                    12 years after the murder. (In Russian). “Moskovki Komsomolets”, December, 25, 2007, đ.1.].
                     
                    
                    http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/11/20/poison.plots/index.html
                     
                    
                    http://www.vmdaily.ru/article.php?aid=47319
                   
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                    1994
                  
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                    The East German defector Wolfgang Welsch and his family:
                    "In 1994 Peter Haack, a former agent for the East Germany secret police, the Stasi, 
                    was found guilty of attempting to poison the East German defector Wolfgang Welsch 
                    and his family during a holiday in Israel. Haack had befriended the family and then 
                    spiked their hamburgers with thallium."
                     
                    
                    http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WOR994LD/europe/11/20/poison.plots/index.html
                                        
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                  Yury P. Vlasov, the 1960 Olympics champion heavyweight weightlifter for the Soviet Union, 
                  was elected to the State Duma of the Russian Federation and was a candidate in the 1996 Russian 
                  presidential election. He suffered from prolonged seemingly causeless “diseases”, which he 
                  considered the result of the application of the fatal potential of the 12-th laboratory of the KGB  
                  about which he wrote in the open letter to the chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the 
                  USSR Anatoly Lukyanov. He received medical treatment in Spain. [ 114, p. 68]*.
                   
                  
                  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yury_Vlasov
                   
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                    1989
                  
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                  Frank Chikane, a prominent South African apartheid era cleric, then a personal 
                  aide to President Mbeki of South Africa, had his underwear laced with a deadly poison 
                  (nerve agent Paraxon). The high-ranking policemen who put the poison to Chicane’s 
                  clothers in an attempt to murder him to prevent his activity received prison 
                  sentences in 2007 [20]*.
                   
                  
                  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article2276943.ece
                  
                  
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                    September 11, 1978
                  
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                  Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident was assassinated in London  by a poison dart 
                  filled with ricin and fired from an umbrella. High profile KGB defectors, 
                  such as Oleg Kalugin and Oleg Gordievsky have confirmed that the KGB was behind the assassination. 
                  The prime suspect now lives in Denmark. Ten days before the murder, an attempt was made to kill 
                  another Bulgarian defector Vladimir Kostov in the same way as Markov, in a Paris metro station. 
                   
                  
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                    1957
                  
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                  Nikolai Khokhlov,
                  a KGB agent who defected in 1954. 
                  The Soviets used thallium in an attempt to kill him in 1957. 
                  This case is often claimed to be the first radiological attack by the KGB.
                   
				  
				  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Khokhlov
		            
                  
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