On 5 Sep 2000 14:22:03 -0400, Steve wrote...
> >Looks Deadly... O)
> >If umbrellas could kill...?
> >
> 
> IIRC in the 80s there was a Bulgarian diplomat who got killed
> (or was it him doing the killing), in London with a poison tipped
> umbrella.

IT was a Bulgarian Broadcaster on the BBC world service, I forget his 
name.

The Umbrella was used to inject him with a small (1mm or less diameter, I 
forget off the top of my head) platinum sphere with holes drilled in it, 
filled with Ricin (a rather nasty toxin derived from the Castor plant)

IIRC he died a day or so after being injected from respiratory failure.

Bye for now,
     Jamie.

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