On Tue, 05 Sep 2000 23:27:00 +0300, Peter Popov wrote:
>On 5 Sep 2000 14:22:03 -0400, ste### [at] zeroppsuklinuxnet (Steve) wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 03 Sep 2000 17:41:55 -0700, SomeGuy 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.
>
>The name you're looking for is George Markov. He didn't have any
>diplomatic post that I have heard, he was a journalist who was forced
>to leave the country for his "inconvenience". Rumour is he was an
>agent of an intelligence or two.
>

I seem to remember there being some involvment with the East German
Secret Police.  It was really big news at the time, they were 
talking about the James Bond type killing etc.  

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