Russian Scientists’ Ties To Military Intelligence

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Poisons, Patents, Phone Logs
Records Reveal Russian Scientists’ Ties To Military Intelligence

Russian military intelligence was in close contact with the head of a state research institute who coordinated with scientists specializing in chemistry and nanotechnologies in the weeks before the 2018 poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal, according to newly obtained phone records.

Patent records and published scientific articles examined by RFE/RL and its partners, meanwhile, showed that these scientists had for years worked to develop sophisticated new methods for delivering medicines and drugs into the body, techniques that have potential use for chemical weapons or poisonings.

The findings, which are the result of an investigation by RFE/RL’s Russian Service, Bellingcat, Der Spiegel, and The Insider, come as questions mount in Western capitals about whether Russia is violating the 1992 Chemical Weapons Convention and whether it is targeting dissidents and other Kremlin opponents with banned poisons and toxins.

International experts, including the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and British and German scientists, have identified the Soviet-developed military-grade agent known as Novichok as the substance used in the poisoning of Skripal and his daughter in 2018.

A new version of Novichok was also identified as the substance that nearly killed Russian anti-corruption activist and opposition...more @ radio free europe

Mr. Evil is at it again...or still