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037. The Poisoned Umbrella Assassination

037. The Poisoned Umbrella Assassination

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 A dissident journalist defected to the West and used radio broadcasts to expose his home regime’s abuses. In 1978, Soviet intelligence engineers turned an ordinary umbrella into a covert weapon, embedding a ricin‑filled micro‑pellet that fired into the target’s thigh with a simple press. The victim died within days from acute poisoning, prompting a forensic breakthrough that revealed the “poisoned umbrella” plot and highlighted the extreme lengths Cold‑War powers would go to silence opposition.

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