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Georgi Ivanov Markov ( March 1, 1929 - September 11, 1978) was a Bulgarian dissident who was assassinated in London by agents of the KGB. On September 7, 1978 he walked across Waterloo Bridge, which crosses the River Thames, and was waiting at a bus stop on the other side, when he was jabbed in the leg by a man holding an umbrella. The man apologised and walked away. Markov would later tell doctors that the man had spoken in a foreign accent.Markov remembered feeling a stinging pain from where he had been hit by the umbrella tip, and when he arrived at work at the BBC World Service offices he noticed a small red pimple had formed and the pain from being jabbed had not gone away. By the evening he had developed a high fever, and died in agony three days later.
After his death, doctors found a small platinum pellet, some 1.5mm across, embedded in his calf. Further examination found that it had two small holes drilled in it, which contained traces of the poison ricin.
Markov had worked as a broadcaster and journalist for the BBC World Service since his defection from Bulgaria, then a communist stateThis article is about one-party states ruled by Communist Parties. For information regarding communism as a form of society, as an ideology advocating that form of society, or as a popular movement, see the main Communism article. In common speech in the under the leadership of President Todor ZhivkovTodor Khristov Zhivkov ( Cyrillic: To Xpco ( September 7, 1911 August 5, 1998) was the leader of Bulgaria (as First Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party) from March 4, 1954 until he was ousted by the party on November 10, 1989. He was the longest se. He had criticised the regime many times on radio, and it is speculated that as a result of this, the Bulgarian government had asked the KGB to assist them in disposing of him.
Several high profile KGB defectors, such as Oleg GordievskyOleg Gordievsky was a member of the KGB that used to be KGB bureau chief in London, and one of the highest ranking KGB defectors ever. After being stationed in several European capitals, he ended up in London in the mid- 1960s; by 1968, he decided to defe have confirmed that the KGB was behind the assassination, even presenting the Bulgarian assassin with alternatives such as a poisonous jellyJelly is a sweet or savoury food gel, usually through the addition of gelatin or pectin. Sweet food gels include gelatin desserts such as Jell-O and blancmange or fruit jam. Savoury food gels include aspic or plain gelatine. In beekeeping, royal jelly is to smear on Markov's skinThis article is about skin in the biological sense. For other uses of skin see skin (computing) and skinhead. Regarding exposure of the skin to be seen by others, or prevention of this, see nudity, nudism, modesty, clothing. Fruits such as oranges also ha, but to this day no-one has been charged with Markov's murder, largely because most documents pertaining to Markov's death were probably destroyed.
Markov, Georgi
Markov, Georgi
