Marina Litvinenko: My husband was not an agent Mi6

The “more than absurd” was called by Marina Litvinenko, a widow of a former FSB officer a year ago, who appeared in the press that her husband was an agent of British foreign intelligence MI6.

About this in her Saturdaywas written by the Daily Mail newspaper in London . The authors of the article, referring to unnamed sources in diplomatic and reconnaissance circles, argue that by the time of death, Alexander Litvinenko received about 2 thousand pounds (4 thousand dollars) per month from the special services.

The Daily Mail also cites the name of the man who, according to the newspaper, participated in the recruitment of the former Russian officer, pointing to the current head of the MI6 of Sir John Scarlett, who worked at one time in Moscow.

“Sasha never worked with secret information in Russia, as it specialized in organized crime, and in recent years in general in England,” Marina Litvinenko reminded of this.

Alexander Goldfarb, a friend of Litvinenko, who recently wrote a book in co -authorship with his widow, stated the same as the Russian service: “I hardly believe that it is true, Sasha has been working in Russian special services since 1997, therefore he did not know and could not know any secrets. And before that he worked in the field of organized crime.”

Goldfarb participated in the organization of Litvinenko’s escape from Russia in 2000. “At that time, I took the whole family of Litvinenko to the American embassy in Turkey, and the CIA officers really talked with him there,” he recalls, “and said that he was absolutely not interesting for them, so they did not take him, and had to take him to England.”

On November 1 last year, at the Millennium hotel, in the center of London, Litvinenko met with another former FSB officer, Russian entrepreneur Andrei Lugov, who subsequently claimed that Litvinenko tried to recruit him as an informant for MII6 and asked for assistance in finding candidates to receive a political asylum in the United Kingdom.