{"id":351985,"date":"2018-03-13T16:59:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T15:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-intelligence-may-be-complicit-in-skripals-poisoning-ex-fsb-head\/"},"modified":"2018-03-13T16:59:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T15:59:08","slug":"uk-intelligence-may-be-complicit-in-skripals-poisoning-ex-fsb-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-intelligence-may-be-complicit-in-skripals-poisoning-ex-fsb-head\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Intelligence May Be Complicit in Skripal\u2019s Poisoning \u2013 Ex-FSB Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>A former FSB director suggested British intelligence agencies may be complicit in poisoning former double agent Sergei Skripal, adding the incident has actually caused \u201cenormous harm\u201d to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Nikolay Kovalev, former director of Russia\u2019s Federal Security Service (FSB), told RIA Novosti on Tuesday it is mainly the UK and its ally the US who benefit from Skripal\u2019s poisoning. The former military intelligence officer was exposed as a British spy back in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looks like British secret services are complicit in it,\u201d Kovalev went on. \u201c[Defectors] are fully under surveillance \u2026 the secret services are monitoring them, they know their whereabouts and schedules. And then you have such strange events happen in a row.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kovalev, who led the FSB from 1996 until 1998, said he believes that a series of assassination attempts targeting defectors in the UK makes him think that the British \u201cscapegoat this or that traitor after having utilized him to the maximum extent, and then say the Russians did it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Skripal, 66, and his 33-year-old daughter Yulia were found unconscious on a bench outside a shopping center in Salisbury last week, prompting London to pin the blame on Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, British Prime Minister Theresa May said the poisoning was either \u201ca direct act by the Russian state on Britain,\u201d or the Russian government had allowed the alleged nerve agent, \u2018Novichok\u2019, to get into the wrong hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government has concluded that it&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/uk-intelligence-poisoning\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former FSB director suggested British intelligence agencies may be complicit in poisoning former double agent Sergei Skripal, adding the incident has actually caused \u201cenormous harm\u201d to Russia. Nikolay Kovalev, former director of Russia\u2019s Federal Security Service (FSB), told RIA Novosti on Tuesday it is mainly the UK and its ally the US who benefit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-351985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}