Mafia Hit On The Media
If I simply stood anywhere near Boris Berezovsky, I’m sure my hair would fall out and my skin would turn yellow.
Litvinenko is simply the last in a long line of stiffs associated with Boris, a line of corpses that stretches back to the mid-nineties. One died from a mysterious nerve toxin applied to the rim of his coffee cup.
If you want to know about Boris Berezovsky, ask former Forbes editor Paul Klebnikov. Except you can’t, because he was blown away in 2004, shortly after writing up Berezovsky’s bullet-ridden bio, ‘Godfather Of Crime’.
The Litvinenko case is notable for the disinformation spread by the UK’s press, where the ‘facts’ have changed daily. Who makes this stuff up? Why, story and pictures supplied by The Godfather’s PR Firm - one with the sole aim of naming the killer as the Kremlin. Or might that just be a smokescreen for a mafia hit? At the very least, it’s a case of Pottinger calling the kettle black.
The media first linked Litvinenko with the poisoning of Yushchenko. How did that come about? Well, PR just happened to contact John Henry, the toxicologist, to put the Thallium rumour about. Shamefaced John now regrets his diagnosis and admits he was misled about aspects of the case. He stood near Boris and, as the Guardian put it today, got his fingers burned.
The BBC reported radioactive metal objects lodged in Litvinov’s intestines. Source? Potttinger PR. Litvinenko’s doctor subsequently complained about the BBC’s unhelpful speculation. But, who cares about facts as long as Putin gets maligned.
Litvinenko didn’t care much for facts either. He was a loose cannon who would say anything and was paid handsomely by Boris for so doing. A good example of one of Livinenko’s rants is an interview where he blames the London 7/7 bombings on Putin. According to Litvinenko, Yassar Arafat, Saddam and al-Zawahiri are all KGB agents too. Litvinenko would give gullible journalists declassified, old 1970s documents marked ’secret’ to prove his cred. Boris bought him a half a million pound house in London. Good job.
The other political link the media has sought to forge is between Litvinenko and Politkovskaya. Well, there is a link, but not the one generally publicised. Shortly before Paul Klebnikov was hit, he was investigating the embezzlement of Russian funds intended for reconstruction in Chechnya - a fatal line of enquiry the investigative Politkovskaya was also following,
Litvinenko’s rants were published in the UK Chechen press. An interesting link is between Berezovsky, Litvinenko and Zakayev, the Chechen warlord, is that they were all mysteriously given asylum in the UK as ‘needy human rights cases’. Yeah, right.
Why London needs a coterie of foreign criminals is beyond me, but they appear to have some friends in very high places. Even Zhirinovsky has asked the perfectly reasonable question ‘ why Cherie Blair works in a law firm which is servicing our Russian thugs, Berezovsky included.’
It’s bad enough having Lord Bell influence the media on behalf of the mafia. Even more disturbing is that Scotland Yard did not investigate the case until several days after the poisoning was reported. Does Boris have friends there too? Not important. By this time Britain’s media had secured a conviction.
[...] Boris Berezovsky’s figure in the background makes Copydude skeptical of some aspects of Aleksandr Litvinenko’s poisoning story. Veronica Khokhlova [...]
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Exellent, Mr. copydude. But could you make it more readable for the non-Russian reader? Strudel
[...] Even worse, Limarev pops up in the Italian press and disclaims the Scaramella ‘hit list’ memo that started it all. The whole PR fairytale is in tatters. For Godfather Berezovsky and Bell PR, burying all these stories - and Judith Svetlichnaya in particular - is given top-priority. [...]
[...] Let’s line up the suspects appearing for the BBC. Mario Scaramella, now in jail for a conspiracy of lies against Italy’s Prime Minister. A dodgy ‘re-creation’ of a six year old telephone call from Trepashkin, also in jail and incommunicado. Trofimov, dead and unverifiable for many years. An anonymous Russian who can’t be filmed or named, the ‘Godfather’ Boris Beresovsky and Marina Litvinenko - who by her own admission never knew what her husband did all day. Not forgetting Litvinenko, the traitor and conspiracy theorist whose raving claims include that Putin masterminded the 7/7 bombings and is a paedophile. [...]
I say! Does anyone know if Zhirinovsky is right about Berezovsky’s being a client of the firm that Cherie works for? If he is right, then why is this not a major scandal?
You are fascinating, Copydude dear. But yours is an Eton-Oxford turn of phrase. Surely you are not rRussian.
Zhirinovsky is not quite accurate. Cherie is a barrister, not a solicitor, and does not have a law firm as such. She is a member of Matrix Chambers. But there are links with Boris - including the fact that Matrix, like Boris, is represented by Bell Pottinger - authors of the Litvinenko death-bed press releases.
[...] There are charges against Scaramella but no one wants to press them. As with the Litvinenko case, officially it’s zip it and shut it. Unofficially, of course, the ’smearmeister’ Berezovsky is still bringing his own charges against Putin in the media, but these are becoming less credible with every month of official silence that passes. [...]
[...] There will be extradition, no trial. The trial by media will stand. And black propaganda and dirty tricks wins the day. [...]
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