Moscow - The thickening plot in the radiation murder of Kremlin opponent Alexander Litvinenko took a sensational new twist Thursday. The chief suspect, KGB agent-turned-businessman Andrei Lugovoi told reporters here that he is being framed by MI6, the British intelligence service, which, he claimed, had tried and failed to recruit him.
In a long and rambling statement, Mr. Lugovoi, who was formally charged with murder by British prosecutors last week, shed little light on who may have killed Mr. Litvinenko, or why. But he did lob fresh accusations which, analysts say, could raise the temperature in the already heated war of words between Moscow and London over the Litvinenko affair and might be used by the Kremlin to crack down harder on its domestic opposition.
Lugovoi claimed that both Litvinenko (a former KGB agent) and his sponsor, exiled anti-Kremlin billionaire Boris Berezovsky, were MI6 agents.
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Note the June 1, 2007 publication date...this is new from the future. Sorta
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