Ex - Spy Claims Litvinenko Was Targeted

Mikhail Trepashkin, a former FSB officer, said he warned Litvinenko in 2003 that he and other Kremlin opponents were targeted by a government-sponsored death squad, The New York Times reports. Trepashkin is serving a 4-year sentence for divulging state secrets while investigating claims that the FSB and not the Chechen separatists were behind the deadly apartment bombings in Moscow in 1999. Litvinenko alleged FSA involvement in the bombings in his book "Blowing up Russia: Terror from Within", published in 2002.