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The Litvinenko Inquiry

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Chapter 3: UK intelligence agencies<br />

Part 9 | Chapters 1 to 12 | Who directed the killing?<br />

9.17 <strong>The</strong> allegation that UK intelligence agencies were responsible for Mr <strong>Litvinenko</strong>’s<br />

death is of a piece with the ‘set up’ issue that I have addressed in Part 8 above.<br />

Mr Lugovoy, for example, has advanced this allegation in the following terms: 2<br />

“I was framed. I suspect this was some British intelligence operation involving<br />

<strong>Litvinenko</strong> and possibly Berezovsky that went wrong. I was contaminated by<br />

<strong>Litvinenko</strong> or someone else, not the other way round. I think polonium was planted<br />

on us and left in places we visited, to frame us.”<br />

9.18 I repeat what I have said at paragraphs 8.161 – 8.164 above. I heard no evidence to<br />

support this allegation.<br />

9.19 I am entirely satisfied that UK intelligence agencies, and for that matter UK government<br />

bodies more generally, played no part at all in Mr <strong>Litvinenko</strong>’s death.<br />

2<br />

HMG000175 (pages 9-10)<br />

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