Former spy claims agency death squad targeted Litvinenko

A former Russian security service officer said in a letter from prison released today that he had warned former spy Alexander Litvinenko years ago that the KGB’s main successor agency had formed a death squadron to kill him and other Kremlin foes.

Mikhail Trepashkin said that an officer of the Russian Federal Security Service, known by its Russian acronym FSB, met with him in August 2002 and offered him the chance to join a group targeting Boris Berezovsky, a self-exiled Russian tycoon living in London, and Litvinenko. He said he refused to co-operate with the team, whose task was to “mop up” Berezovsky, Litvinenko and their accomplices.