There is no such list. And I never gave one. I told Mario how things work. There's no official meeting in the Kremlin where it's decided to assign to Intelligence the job of eliminating the president's enemies. Obviously the matter is a lot more nuanced. Intelligence members let their contacts in organized criminality or private agencies created by ex-officials of the KGB- Moscow and Europe are full of them- that in a very reserved way, one will receive honour and glory if he silences this guy or another. That's what I said and wrote in my email to Mario. It was Mario who had in turn asked me to control the existence and activity of an organization called "Pride and Dignity"- it's one of those private security agencies I mentioned before- and the people that gravitate around it. I don't know where he got that information. I know I wasn't the source. I know that Scaramella and Guzzanti aren't wrong when they worry about their safety. I notified them that the obstinate search for past infiltrations of the KGB in Italy very much irritated the Kremlin which doesn't want to pay the political consequences of anti-western operations during the Cold War. Over time, then, someone in Moscow concluded that Paolo Guzzanti and Mario Scaramella were operating to discredit the new political course. So I confirm what Guzzanti says and what scares Scaramella.
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If we understand correctly, you work for Scaramella. In the past months, Scaramella asks you to verify the news concerning Guzzanti's and his security. On November 1st, Scaramella consigns that information to Litvinenko in a Japanese restaurant in London. When Litvinenko finds out he's been poisoned, Scaramella drags you into the story, indicating that you are the source. Is this correct?
Correct. I didn't like it when I found out Mario had told Aleksandr the contents of our recent conversations, when I realized he had manipulated it by putting in the magnate Berezovskij, Litvinenko also and the reporter Anna Politovskaja, whom I've never handled. On November 2 or 3 I wrote him a mail. I asked him why he had violated a fundamental point of our agreement: The information that I gather for him must not be shared with third parties. On that occasion, Mario apologized. But the eggs had been broken. All you had to do was read the English press.
They cite possible suspects in the poisoning.
No. They mix together bits of information that once again, Mario Scaramella had asked me to verify and that I had verified. I'll put it simply. It's true there's an organization called "Pride and Dignity." It's true that the president and the vice-president of the organization are ex-officials of the KGB. It's true that the organization was solicited to monitor Guzzanti and Scaramella. It's true that one of the men in "Pride and Dignity" limps. But what this information has to do with the death of Litvinenko nobody know. Maybe Mario knows but, I understand, he must be very scared.
