smith the evidence you got this killing i'll state the rasputin subject well. says that the bullet that actually killed the man was fired from the real gun from a british gun and again that was standard issue of the british intelligence service does that those that. can we take it as sufficient evidence that responded actually was killed by by a british agent named rain or rain or the. the the evidence points to it it isn't. the come from a tree but there is no doubt the rain a was present and of that rain a hand the the webley a where billy revolver and it was a where billy point four four five which actually killed russia putin i should. stress here that i'm not the first to touch on most b.b.c. time watch program did something on this quite a while ago and. a friend of mine who is a former. senior detective in the metropolitan police here in london was an advisor on. that documentary program and he went to moscow and he talked with forensic experts in moscow and these people together did a lot of work on this and it's a result of their work rather than any r

light on events and crimes that made history in the twentieth century among them is the matter of rasputin the clear it can clairvoyant who had an almost magical influence with the family of the last russian impera m i six suspect rasputin of trying to persuade the tsar to quit the first world war which was contrary to british interests the service is part of his death adds to the mystery of the man six also plan to assassinate joseph stalin in nine hundred eighteen but the very last moment the mission failed what are the intriguing revelations are we to expect the former british intelligence officer michael smith is here to sign the arsenal. hello michael and welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us. thank you. michael you published a book devoted to the history of the british intelligence and the first part of the book is about the period from nineteen zero nine to nineteen thirty nine where you the first research chair who got access to the m i six archives. i didn't actually have our current access to the m i six the visual archives their internal archives where we got