Finding Your Name On Russia's Hit List

摘要

It was just before 10 p.m. on Feb. 12, Boris Karpichkov's 59th birthday, when the former KGB agent got an unexpected call at his home in the U.K. It was a Russian secret service friend phoning covertly from mainland Europe to warn him of a hit list with eight names on it. Karpichkov, who'd defected to Britain in 1998, was on the list. So was Sergei Skripal, another ex-Russian double agent.