Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy who was murdered in London last month, was an outspoken critic of anti-Semitism in the Russian security services. According to London’s Jewish News, Litvinenko’s friend and spokesman Alex Goldfarb said the former KGB spy wrote a book called “The FSB Blows up Russia,” in which he “condemned latent anti-Semitism within Russia’s Federal Security Service.”
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