Here, he began to vigorously attack the Bulgarian government over Radio Free Europe. So he defected to Italy in 1968 and then moved to London in 1971 where he joined the Bulgarian service of the BBC. Markov had become disillusioned with the communist ideology because of the corruption he saw in the higher officials of the government. Just an umbrella! An umbrella specially designed with a spring-loaded device to deliver a pinhead-sized pellet loaded with one of the most potent poisons known to mankind. And what an assassination it was! No guns, no grenades, no knives. For it was right there, in full daylight, on Thursday, September 7, 1978, that a Bulgarian émigré by the name of Georgi Markov was assassinated by the Bulgarian secret police.
I wanted to see with my own eyes the famous spot where one of the most ingenious chemical crimes in history was perpetrated. I wasn’t interested in taking a train, I just wanted to stand at the bus stop right in front of the station. For me, this brings back memories of my last visit to London when I made a point of going to Waterloo station. Ricin is in the news because this potentially potent poison was supposedly detected in a letter addressed to President Trump.
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