Goldfarb on Litvinenko Escape

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In this foreword and set of book excerpts, Alexander Goldfarb details his role in facilitating the October 2000 escape of FSB whistleblower Alexander Litvinenko from Turkey to London. Goldfarb recounts meeting Litvinenko at the US Embassy in Ankara, where Litvinenko attempted to trade information on the 1999 apartment bombings and the murder of American businessman Paul Tatum for political asylum. The document explicitly covers the Ryazan 'training exercise' incident, which Litvinenko claims was an FSB false flag operation designed to incite the Ryazan Airborne Division against Chechens. Additional text details FSB corruption, including protection rackets and a botched operation by then-Director Nikolay Kovalev in Chechnya. The narrative highlights the involvement of Boris Berezovsky in financing the escape and suggests US officials may have tipped off Turkish authorities about Litvinenko's fake passport to facilitate his departure.