tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764631039755560338.post2863379703068557373..comments2024-03-08T20:21:22.820+00:00Comments on The Deighton Dossier: If they weren't so notorious, this would be funny - Stasi disguises....Deighton Dossierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01764108300942425651noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764631039755560338.post-21576261829609592092013-08-01T13:08:33.579+01:002013-08-01T13:08:33.579+01:00I met the Markov guy at the BBC World Service caf...I met the Markov guy at the BBC World Service cafeteria when my friend a BBC World Service presenter introduced him to me. He was anything but flamboyant, was very unassuming person. But his experience in his native Bulgaria from where he managed to come to Britain, and the credibility he had because in his broadcast to East European countries including Bulgaria, he was making a point always in his broadcast about the State control and State intolerance to any one who disagree with them etc made him enough of a target.. My friend was shocked to hear his murder as he was talking to him the very evening he met with his fate. Rumour then in his circle of friends was that it was KGB -engineered and this Stasi was used as a hit man. <br /><br />The purpose of using the ricin derived from the caster seed was to make it look like a natural death as this poison rarely gets registered in the blood and hence leaves no foot print at all.<br /><br />As for smart phones, Israeli Mossad assassinated a Hamas leader a few years ago using not smart phones but his mobile phone was modified, and the modification was virtually not noticeable at all.<br /><br />I had posted previously about my 2 academic visits to East Germany ( in Funeral in Berlin discussion at one time) in early 1980s, to the Technical University of Dresden for example attending conferences held there. It was very difficult to spot the East German agents as academics were often coerced to act as one, calling the real "action men" when needed. There was a piece in Der Spiegel about Angela Merkel ( the current German Chancellor) acting as an agent for the Soviet Union, not in the sinister ways of Stasi or KGB, but as a "soft agent".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764631039755560338.post-37696363160561969802013-07-31T15:26:10.913+01:002013-07-31T15:26:10.913+01:00I remember reading about the Markov case. Also, I ...I remember reading about the Markov case. Also, I think in episode two or three of the Americans on ITV, one of the Russian sleeper agents did the same thing with an umbrella on a subject they brought in for interrogation. I imagine nowadays, the Stasi would be looking at using smart phones some way to get at people.Deighton Dossierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01764108300942425651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764631039755560338.post-64833192929974647092013-07-31T15:12:42.973+01:002013-07-31T15:12:42.973+01:00We could laugh a bit, if it was not serious. That...We could laugh a bit, if it was not serious. That dress would not be out of place in a crowded after office evening in the Waterloo Bridge when commuters busily walk towards Waterloo Station or standing at a bus stop there to take a bus. What if some one in this dress brushes an umbrella end at the leg of such a commuter on the Bridge and walks briskly with the crowd ahead, melting into them?<br />That was how a Bulgarian Stasi injected the ricin derived from the<br />caster seed that produces caster oil which is used as a purgative in the South Asian countries. The poison was not detected in the post -mortem examination on the body of the victim (Georgi Markov) who was a presenter BBC World Service East European (Bulgarian) Section.. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com