Pinyaev retracts his story about hexogen/sugar in his tea
20 Dec. 2001
Cover Up
Russian Media
FSB Ryazan Press Conference On the eve of the professional holiday, the head of the department, Major General Oleg Mikhailovich Dukanov, told reporters about the results of the work of the FSB Directorate for the Ryazan Region for the year. Serviceman A.N. Pinyaev, who allegedly told the "truth" to a Novaya Gazeta journalist, said that the 137th Airborne Regiment had no warehouses of hexogen at its disposal. In December 1999, he was admitted to the hospital and was never seen again at the training ground. https://web.archive.org/web/20110131045636/http://rv.ryazan.ru/old/cgi-bin/main-n%3D1244%26m%3D8.htm
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