This file photo of 1998 shows former officer of FSB Alexander Litvinenko, right.
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Litvinenko Was a Traitor, Former Chief Said
Alexander Litvinenko was a traitor, said Half Colonel Alexander Gusak, once Litvinenko’s chief in the FSB.
Litvinenko betrayed to the secret services of Britain the names of spies working for Russia’s intelligence. He disclosed the most sacred what an agent had, the sources of information, Gusak told The Times.
Litvinenko was poisoned exactly because of betraying Russian spies in Britain, Gusak supposed. Once top-rank officer of FSB, Gusak became a lawyer after retiring from that service.
“The people whom Litvinenko betrayed to Britain’s secret services got in touch with me, asking what to do next,” Gusak said. “As a lawyer, I told them that Litvinenko’s actions were subject to Clause 245 of the RF Criminal Code (High Treason) with the specified punishment of up to 20 years in prison.”
But under the Criminal Code of the former Soviet Union, the high treason was punished by execution. “In Soviet times that we all very well remember, Litvinenko would have been executed,” Gusak pointed out. One of the betrayed agents suggested “beheading the traitor,” Gusak said as quoted by The Independent.
Former officer of FSB, Alexander Litvinenko died in a London hospital past November. The doctors said the reason of his death was poisoning by radioactive polonium 210.
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