kgb headquarters in moscow. the files reveal that julius rosenberg recruited another atomic spy, besides david greenglass, an engineer and -- named russell mcnutt who worked at a firm atomics building facility in oak ridge, tennessee. they also reveal that ethel rosenberg was involved in recruiting people, like her sister-in-law for espionage work. and that the information passed by david greenglass manually and mutually overlapped with data sent to moscow by major atomic spies, particularly clouse and theodore. the kgb described these messages as "highly valuable. next, as our colleague's book engineering communism. he has laid out in detail the espionage in the rosenberg ring. joel and alfred. both escaped the united states before the fbi had a chance to arrest them. the ended up, after stopovers in czechoslovakia in the soviet , union. where steve shows they use their expertise to develop the microelectronics industry and create moscow's version of silicon valley. most recently, alan hornbloom wrote his book,

into a currency exchange situation and then report that back to the kgb, and the kgb would have the tools to review the that individual with the threat of blackmail to become an informer or sleeper or whatever for the kgb. that's what you have to understand.putin's background. that's the skill. that is one of the skills he learned help only had one career before he came into his position in st. petersburg in the 1990s, and that was as a kgb agent. that is basically the way he has deviced a system to control the entire country. every one of the oligarchs before he came to power he had the files on them, and i won't go into the details. they're in the book how he operated win august of 1996 when he came as a completely unknown figure to moscow until the time in 1999 three years laider to when he was appointed prime minister and designated as yeltsin's chosen successor. he moved from a succession of positions that all, every single step of the way, had to do with collecting information protecting the information, and creating eventually a monopoly on this incriminating, especially economic a

. >> he was once a kgb agent but turned into a vocal critic of russia. when he was poisoned in london, it made headlines around the world. >> it's polonium. >> a lethal toxin in a cup of tea. >> it's almost a tiny, little dirty bomb. >> it's nuclear terrorism. >> but why was he killed? to unravel the mystery, we follow the tale of a dark conspiracy that may not yet be over. >> are you frightened for your life? >> we'll meet and confront the prime suspect. >> did you put polonium in the tea? >> and now, is the danger coming closer? >> two men waiting in the bushes. one man said "shoot him." >> an attack on the expert helping us with this story. >> people say, "oh, it's never going to happen here." i know that it can happen here because it happened to my husband. >> "dateline: the real blacklist." >> good evening, i'm richard engel. the word "kremlin" literally means a fortress in the center of a city. and for hundreds of years this fortress has been a seat of power and a center of intrigue. tonight, we'll examine the case of a former russian agent named a

. >> a kgb guy in those days. >> putin was a kgb guy all day at the time head of kgb then prime minister as you know yell yeltsin's choice for a successor, boris yeltsin was bravest of all of us, he was the most vocal critic of putin's regime he released several reports that revealing indemic prescription -- corruption. violation of human reports. all reports were about putin. and report he was about to release, that is why i believe they immediately seized his computer the reporter was about to release aimed at ukraine eastern ukraine. it was about present of russia troops in ukraine. neil: is it obvious for putin to call out a hit when the whole world would say when you say he could be set up. >> who cares that is -- dictators don't ask why they into why not putin confiscateed if you can use the word annexed part of a neighbors country then started a war in another part, he is not hiding his agenda to destroy ukraine state hood. this is -- whether -- >> he has a network of people that take care of this? >> it is the most powerful network in the world. it is not difficult to organize ev

primarily because it is a moscow-based company and the founder was once affiliated with the kgb.hat we discovered through our reporting is the ties are much deeper than that. one of the most interesting findings is there is a man the company named chief legal officer. he did not have a public file on the website. he holds a large degree of power at that company and is the point man for all requests for data from russians by agencies and other government agencies. that is not unlike what many u.s. companies have. until now, we have not had a clear picture of what that looks like at cap risky -- kapersky. there were some really revealing findings. cory: i know the company best for their reports about illicit activity going on across the web . weird reports that suggest the nsa but always stopped just short of those three important letters. what are the company's -- what is the company's main business line? >> the antivirus software you see on the shelves of best buy. they sell antivirus software. it is important that people buy it. the reports are pr for the company. it serves two

the former kgb officer decided to launch what would become one of the world's most profitable securitypanies. it now operates in 200 countries. here is what he had to say. mr. kaspersky: it's not the same that it was 5, 10, 15 years ago. the players are different. there is a revolution of the cyberspace. in the past, they were several bands of kids, students writing the computer viruses. then the cyber criminals came. they were individuals. then the cyber criminal groups they became organized, informational, very professional. then we are facing the espionage company. now it's even different. traditional crime is coming to the cyberspace. they employ software engineers to support operational crime. [indiscernible] we are in a very interesting business, which is not easy. it's hard to do our job, but it's a cool place to be. cory: when you said traditional crime, what do you mean? mr. kaspersky: they hack computer stations, the transportation hubs. for example, they hacked the antwerp seaport to transport cocaine. in some of the containers they have cocaine planted in. they know which c

it's a subaru. ♪ >>> it's the kgb. they're blocking your signal.e sure you've had someone on your tail the entire time you've been here. >> what's rock and roll supposed to be about other than cars and girls and aggression? about dissent. about rebellion, right? in russia, where everything is supposed to be just fine, that can be a dangerous position. travis link is an ex-pat american who manages this band, luna. ruben kazarian is luna's guitarist and songwriter. >> what we have now here is very nice. we have elections, democracy, and courts. but all this doesn't work as it should. so that prevents right now in russia to speak freely. formally nothing but in reality a lot of things. >> let's talk about mtv. so rebel music as i understand it was an mtv television series whose fundamental principle was to celebrate bands who say difficult things in environments where there might be repercussions. and as i understand it, your band was chosen for one of seven episodes. >> correct. >> and in fact, one of your songs was used as the title track for the se

. >>> one of the suspecteds in the murder of former kgb agent may be ready to cooperate. he's an outspoken critic of the kremlin at a london hotel in 2006. he accused russian russian president vladimir putin of ordering his assassination. the men accused denied charges and moscow has refused to allow their extradition. now one of them is willing to speak with investigators >> now to another mysterious murder in the death of an investigator found in his apartment with a gunshot wound to his head. deciding whether to take that decision to overturn the verdict of another judge who last month ruled the case being investigated should not >> he was mocking the memory of the 85 victims. don't ask me who. they're all over the social networks in the arms of various women. >> the protests are much more subdued a dog chasing its tail running in circles. at least not yet which only leaves people in argentina asking if their political system is serving the people they're supposed to serve. rule by decree >> cubans try to get to the u.s. not just by sea but treacherous lands journeys.

kgb but actors who kill at will and do some of the most terrible things anyone can think of and willieve attack us so to all of you who stay strong to protect this nation it's not yet a day when we say we can relax i want to know we appreciate that if i can briefing say a fungus of the history of the project as willie said it took a real show of force to complete this memorial the process started 782 years ago it was finished in 4982 but the meantime was never built there was a lot of talk over the years 3 separate committees were formed and disband but in 2010 a group made up of secretary sxhuflz and wilks stepped up they formed the veterans memorial committee that is had a raised more 2 and a half million dollars in private donations and the result is the wonderful monument we celebrate today designed by susan entitled passage of random brans the grounds on which this moment stands up have a history over the years veterans groups held ceremonies to commiserate america wars they turned the soil if key battle zones into the battle war conflict right here in 1936 soil from world war i

this season is you're trying to decide whether or not you're going to recruit your daughter into the kgbrful. >> isn't she great? holly. holly. >> seth: and you -- she's sort of -- she can be trouble and you were trouble as a kid. is this true? i can't believe this is true. but you got kicked out of the brownies. how do you get kicked out of the brownies?. >> by being cool. >> seth: yes. [ laughter ] you were too cool for the brownies. >> one too many cartwheels, i was told. >> seth: then you just moved right on. you were like sorry, brownies, i'm moving on. mickey mouse club. >> the m.m.c. as the cool kids call it. >> seth: you were in the mickey mouse club. now were you there in the same era like the j.t.'s of the world, the aguileras? >> totally. >> seth: you were really? >> although i stand by this fact, yes, it was christina aguilera, and britney spears and justin timberlake, ryan gosling. >> seth: i know all these people. >> i always like to remember to throw him in the mix. no, no, no, you are on the mickey mouse club. >> seth: yeah, you're right. >> i know you're really cool now

investigative journalist anna politkovskaya shot outside her apartment in 2006 and former kgb officeralexander litvinenko, poisoned with radioactive polonium-210. putin quickly announced he will personally investigate nemtsov's "cruel and sip cal murder," which has every sign of being a contract killing. before he was murdered. boris them nemtsov was working on an expose that russian troops were fighting alongside rebels in ukraine. he was due to front an opposition rally in moscow tomorrow. that event has now turned into a procession to mourn his death. tom? >> we'll be following that. thank you very much. >>> now for the global manhunt for the most-wanted man in the world, jihadi john. that brutal isis executioner. we're now learning his face and name, and bit by bit how he grew from a british schoolboy to a merciless killer. abc's chief investigative correspondent brian ross with the details. >> reporter: new details tonight offer clues about the path from british school boy to jihad for mohammed emwazi. at the age of 11, teachers already saw a violent streak. and he told them of h

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his intermediary offered the kgb a deal to undermine president reagan's foreign policy and to support premier andropov's u.s. image in return for soviet help for the democrats in the 1984 presidential campaign against reagan. that's more than intervention, isn't it. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell today offered an explanation as to why the obama administration decries any outside influence and is so eager to go it alone on a nuclear deal with iran. >> all of us should be suspicious of an administration that is so intent on keeping the elected representatives of the american people out of this deal. you have to ask yourself why. why. and there's only one conclusion you could reach which is he intends to make a bad deal. >> mcconnell and the republican leadership have, it appears, figured out what this administration is all about. now our quotation of the evening. this one from a man i would expect good democrats such as pelosi, obama kerry, to like a lot. it was president harry truman who said once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition i

>> for 20 years he has been in power, he has cleared the political field for himself with kgb machinery a lot of his political opponents had to go into exile. from belarus they have had to operate from poland, et cetera. >> there hasn't been anyone in opposition in parliament since the 1990s. from his own admission he admits he is an authoritarian. he's not shy about it. condoleezza rice says this is last dictatorship in asia. do you agree? >> using belarus as a polly polygon. >> becoming the peace maker between russia and ukraine have happened in minsk are western leaders shying away from criticizing him? i know the u.s. does fund some ngos that are in opposition to him but are people shying away because he is taking a more middle peacemaker role? >> they are faced with this incredible situation in ukraine this is worst conflict in europe following the conflict in yugoslavia. a significant prestige problem for him president hollande and merkel are the first top leaders to have visited belarus for many, many years. this is a political coup for the president. >> do you see any hope for t

people pound to an drop've, who was more previously for many years of thad of the kgb but he came from the communist party. he didn't come up fr

he had several meetings that were scheduled and supposed to meet with the fsb and that's the former kgbave talks with the president of others and did not show up. so now in that -- the situation right now it always must go and always has been a center for rumors and speculation and it's in high demand at this point. as soon as the president does not show up and that's rare for him people begin to question. >> where could he be? >> well he could be just look on the web. he would be all over in a yoga retreat. seriously there are some explanations and he could be sick. the flu is going around and that might be the more normal thing or the schedule. they continue to say that he feels fine. his hand shake could crush a man's hand. there's a rumor that he has a girlfriend. that the girlfriend is having a baby in switzerland. now he denies that too. now, all i am saying is that you have to look at it in terms of why the insanity. one of the problems is that people are very nervous and where is putin? is he in charge? could there be a pallace? it's a situation is serious. even if the rumors so

reporter: alexander was an outspoken critic of his own agency so there were many people within the kgb which became the fsb who wanted him dead. he is not the only prominent critic of the kremlin to die under very suspicious circumstances. if you'll remember just about two weeks ago another man, boris nemtsov, was shot down right in front of the kremlin right before he was about to hold a big anti-putin rally. >> what do we know about the chief suspect in this case? >> reporter: he's now a member of the russian parliament. we sat down to interview him. he has his own tv show in russia. he just got a medal from putin for service to the father land and he denies that he put any polonium in the tea. >> nice to talk to you. thanks so much. we'll be watching. "dateline" tonight at 8:00 on nbc 4. >>> march madness can be so distracting it's actually costing companies billions of dollars. a staffing firm called challenger, gray & christmas found the highly anticipated basketball tournament is a productivity killer. researchers say it costs employers nearly $2 billion in lost wages. instead of

he is a kgb man.e knows how to conduct this kind of obscure investigation very well. >> what will nemtsov's death -- what inflew he knew or effect will it have on the opposition? >> the opposition, there are two scenarios. the opposition can actually rally behind. one of the russian arguments that they make in the kremlin arguments is that the opposition, the opposition will unite and go after the crem limb or get scared and deteriorate. i would think it's actually the first. i think because so many people have completely been i insensed. >> have you had a thought of what russia would be like if new mexico until nemtsov had gotten to power stiff intraedmi putin? >> it's not entirely accurate because putin did not replace himself in that position. there were other kangs in yeltsin's entourage. he was one of the leaders of a very good democratic party, bright leaders in that party. it collapsed very soon after putin came to pour in 2000. russia is a pioneer country that observes laws that speaks

i'm sure it's been going on since the kgb has been up and running.hought the cold war was over. we thought there was no rooen real reason for the russians to be spying on the united states. >> and still -- >> yeah. >> i can only imagine the 60s, 70s, 80s how much more it was going on. >> i was a kid in the 1980s, at the tail end of the cold war but i can remember vividly as a 6, 7, 8-year-old the fear of world war iii, that russians were going to attack us. "red dawn" in the 1980s. you look at it and laugh but this takes us back to an era where it was a real thing. >> visceral part as well. i remember going to bed and fearing that the world would end in a nuclear disaster. i was an activist in anti-nuclear demonstrations as a young kid. it was a very visceral palpable feel we all lived under the threat ofannihilation. >> there's a clash between these two countries hochlt is going to win? we also know five ten years down the line the soviet union collapses completely. >> we grossly overestimated their abilities economically and militarily. but, you kn

putin is fundamentally a kgb thug. he's not a complicated man. he's been very candid.e says he considers the greatest geopolitical disaster of modern times the dissolution of the soviet union. he's trying i believe to reassemble as much of it as possible. putin only understands strength. now, listen, nobody wants to see a shooting war between america and russia. two nuclear superpowers you don't engage in a shooting war. but there are things we can be doing, we should be standing with ukraine and arming ukraine right now so the ukrainians can defend themselves. we should honor our treaty commitments. we should have when putin invaded crimea, we should have immediately gone forward and installed the antiballistic missile batteries in poland and the czech republic that had been scheduled to go into effect and the president canceled in 2009 to appease putin. and third, we should immediately clear for export liquid natural gas. putin uses energy as his tool of economic blackmail. it produced jobs here at home, weaken russia and empower our friends. >> how big an impact on

code is probably more complicated than anything we've seen since the height of the cold war from the kgb search of his cabin, investigators discover that kaczynski had no intention of stopping his campaign of terror. >> we found a live device underneath his bunk. it turned out that he, as we had surmised, was not going to honor his promise not to send any more bombs. this thing was ready to go. all it needed was the address and the postage and it would have been gone. >> a federal grand jury indicts kaczynski on multiple counts of illegally transporting, mailing and using bombs. the government will also seek the death penalty for the murders of hugh scrutton, thomas mosser, and gilbert murray. faced with overwhelming evidence tying him to the unabomber crimes, kaczynski's court-appointed lawyer attempt to enter an insanity plea to save him from the death penalty. he objects. >> he distrusts any mental health officials and believes they are i involved with mind control. he's very proud of his rational reasoning ability and the idea that he had mental illness would go against the heart of

one a bare-chested horseback riding judo chopping ex-kgb agent.om an annoying case of gout. russian president vladimir putin and north korea's kim jong-un do have a lot in common like a talent for antagonizing the united states which is why the white house will surely be watching closely when kim makes his first foreign trip as head of state to moscow. joining me now is jamie metzel former state department official under president bill clinton, senior fellow at the atlantic council and author of "the genesis code." good to see you, as always. what is the relationship between russia and north korea? >> well it's an important relationship for north korea and it's becoming more important. north korea was born because of the soviet union and the soviet union was the biggest patron of north korea until the fall of the soviet union, then north korea shifted, deftly shifted to being a client of china, essentially. now relations between china and north korea are souring and north korea's looking for a new patron and russia especially with bad boy vladimir

he former successor to the kgb, is going to look into who killed boris nemtsov in this assassinatione shadow of the kremlin. how credible is that? >> i hope it will be credible. i'm glad the president of russia is focused on this. the history of previous investigations of political assassinations journalists and human rights activists have not been very conclusive. what makes me nervous is that the government in russia including putin has already hinted that this is a pro vocation against them and that makes me nervous that we're not going to hear the facts. we're going to hear an affirmation of what the president has already said. >> i wanted to play a little bit of john mccain on "morning joe" today. his concerns about the way this has all been handled. >> well, i said to him, i said boris, i'm very worried about your safety. i think that these people are going to try to do you harm. that individualvladimir -- he said, i know but i have to go back and do this for my country. we now have news that just the last few days he gave an interview where he said that he knew his life was in

shot four times in the entrance of her moscow apartment in 2006 and sal rander litvenyenko, former kgblow death after drinking a legal dose of radioactive polonium. his tea spiked in a london hotel during with a meeting with two former russian servicemen all outspoken critics of president vladimir putin, all killed in mysterious ways. we still don't know who ordered those killings and now we have this one. what do you think those deaths have in common? >> well i don't think they have anything in common. >> reporter: the kremlin denied any involvement in the cases. former kremlin adviser believed president putin is innocent. >> there's absolutely no proof of any involvement of the russian state. >> reporter: those suspicious deaths are not the only ones. 50-year-old human rights activists was dumped by the side of a road with bullet wounds to her head. training journalist and human rights lawyer shot in broad daylight meters from the kremlin. the editor of "forbes russia" killed with a machine gun outside his moscow office and a business tycoon in self-exile was found with a noose aroun

the the fact that the kgb has essentially consolidated governance under his control has been a positive contributor to stability but there is an ongoing for kurds to articulate there desires for rights power-sharing plan to be reflected in the laws and the quality of the political leadership. more work to be done. >> done. >> i think we have time for one more question. [inaudible question] >> the role they have had. >> if you could please comment and the role that exxon has said? >> exxon is one of the number of large international oil companies that have signed exploration and e signed exploration and production agreements with the kurdistan regional government. they did that under threat in baghdad. and they have been steadfast in taken a different approach. rather than provide royalties and revenue-sharing agreements they are allowing joint ownership which makes companies like exxon stakeholders peace and prosperity. exxon has played a pivotal role. that phone call was received from exxon and other major us oil companies. so energy development is pivotal to iraqi kurdistan viability.

that may not be your intended message but when you are a kgb thawed who happens to be the head of another state, the aggressor in this case, that is the message they are hearing. the evidence on the ground would suggest that is the case. iraq's first of all i think it would help if we sent the sanctions team to show you what we hold for crimea and what we hold for ukraine. the state and treasury. >> that would be a novel thought. >> we will make that happen as soon as they come back from europe. i want to make clear, we have begun consultations already this week with our european partners on deepening sanctions if we do not see minsk implemented. >> how many violations have there been on minsk to? we show 300. is that roughly in the ballpark from your point of view? >> they have logged more than 100. >> isn't part of the problem with minsk that merkel and a lombard trying to negotiate with nothing backing it up? wouldn't it be useful to have united states in and its nato partners at least threatening to provide defensive weapons and training for the ukrainian military so that is a piece o

successor organization to the kgb, so they're appearing on russian state and saying that two suspects have been detained over the murder of the russian opposition of boris. there's a huge pressure to get to the bottom of this killing and make some arrests. the russian president has spoken and condemning the killing saying that the murder was shameful and these killings in russia should come to an end. making some process and today that apparent process and two people have been named. people from the north cob could say region. the russian investigators found the get away car that they used to get away from the crime scene after the shooting took place on friday night. it was forensic evidence that they they were able to make the arre arrest. >> how far is this from where he was killed? >> it was at the other site. it was a long long way from the area itself. the north caucus is the most and extremely violent area. there are two extremely broad de conflicts there with forces and rebels fighting for a separate state. that rebel movement has spread across and there's an ongoing there and

ukraine and things can return to normalcy that may not be your intended message but when you are a kgbhug who was the head of another state or the aggressor, that is the message he hears. the evidence on the ground suggest that is the case. >> first of all, may be helpful if we send our sanctions team to look at the breakdown between what we hold for crimea and troubled for eastern ukraine's been lacking in the state department sentience team? to make state and treasury spirit that is the novel thought. >> we will make that happen as soon as they come back. >> but i want to make clear we have begun consultations already this week with european partners to deepen sanctions stemming come a violations from minsk? >> we have over 300 we have counted is that roughly the ballpark? bin lecter not in front of me but they have more than 100. >> isn't that part of the problem? now with the best of intentions the time to negotiate with time to back it up isn't useful to have united states and the nato partners at least threatening to provide defensive weapons and create - - trading for the milita

. >> so what you have described is the exact mirror of the kgb in terms of case study, handlers, names and writing about their daily life. >> our are many parallels. but i think somebody who is defending what they did early would say we have to fight fire with fire. that would be their defense but there were many parallels. >> i am wondering if you came across anything the immigration act? so a lot of the students that met your contemporaries in 64 at international meetings of years later i know my parents came after the 65 immigration act but they had run into them in england gore india so did you think these were influential approved or not approved? >> i don't understand the question. >> it is whether the work of the yenisei and cia had anything to do to affect of the pieces were granted? for people trying to emigrate. >> for the professional visa >> they could arrange for the visa. but i don't think it had in general for specific people in general had to do with immigration it was a very targeted person they wanted for many name server people they did not want some of that was in t

in kgb fashion putin will round up the usual suspects, but i fear we will never know who pulled the trigger then i. oversight of the investigation ensures it will be a sham. we do not need to know -- we did not need the investigation to know who is responsible for his murder. vladimir putin may not have murdered his assassination, but perhaps what is most frightening about puritans russia is that he did not need to. boris is dead because of the culture of -- that vitamin putin has created. russia, where individuals are routinely persecuted and attacked for their police, including by the russian government. no one is ever held responsible. set the, boris nemtsov is not the first and will not be the last of putin's oppression. this is deepened by the increase of surveillance. the ongoing detention of political prisoners, and a violent attacks on brave journalists who dare to publish the truth about corruption and other state crimes in russia. according to one news report, at least 23 journalists have been murdered in russia for reporting on government criminality and abuse. since vladimir put

what you described is the exact mirror of what the kgb did in terms of case study case handlers namesand also having writing the about their daily life. >> there are many parallels. >> yeah, many parallels. >> many parallels. and i think somebody who was defending what they did early on would say we had to fight fire with fire. i mean that would be their defense. but there were many parallels. >> question over on that side. >> i was wondering if you came across, 1965 when the new immigration act was changed. so a lot of students that maybe met your contraries in 1963 or 1964 at international meetings they have may have applied a few years later and applied for visas. my parents came here after the 1965 immigration act but had parents from france or england. they decided to come here. found it was good for them. do you think any of these files were influential who got their immigration approved or not approved. >> i'm not sure -- i couldn't hear the question because of the echo. >> the question was whether the work of nsa and cia was doing have anything to do with of a affecting whethe

. >> and the joke runs as follows: brezhnev calls nixon on the telephone and says the kgb tells me youew supercomputer that can predict events in the year 2000. nixon says yes, we have such a computer. well, mr. president, could you tell me what the names of our poll lis borrow members will be then? brezhnev laughs and says, that, that so your computer is not so fist is candidated after. i cannot read it. brezhnev says why not? nixon responds by saying well it is in chinese. [laughter] so the false assumption you have listed in your book are number one, that engagement brings complete cooperation. i think you and i probably agree on that one. >> okay. >> because in my book i've made the same argument, especially in the state department that engagement leads to cooperation. sometimes. and nobody gives any margin for the other side actually manipulating the engagement. so that's that's something i think that's interesting. the second false assumption you say is that china is on the road to democracy and you believe that that's not the case. the third assumption is that china is the fragi

but, in russia, when the soviet union fell apart, the power -- the kgb, the foreign intelligence service, the interior ministry, armed services, they never fell apart. they struggle through. on top of that was the thin veneer of elections. underneath that was corruption and the power ministers. it may have looks like it was going to become a capitalist country, and certainly a lot of people made a lot of money out of it, and the comments party at least so far as marxism and let leninism passed away. but the 19th century view of europe as about a persistent. western europeans do not see it that way. they see countries as opportunities for economic growth, trade, commercial relationships. they do not see eastern europe as a chessboard to be fought over. but, the power ministries inside russia do see it that way. and they have ever since the end of the cold war. so the munro doctrine -- that was 19th century. this is 20 century. we do not want spears of influence. we want stability, respect for international law and borders freedom, the right of people to choose their own form of government

who killed former kgb agent alexander lip vin nenco.r putin, he believed he was poisoned but his symptoms were confusing. >> the hair. >> to fall out. >> yes. and he starts to look like cancer patient treated by chemotherapy. >> reporter: then, only hours before he died investigators discovered that he was poisoned with a rare and highly toxic radioactive material. polonium 210. now that they know what to look for, british investigators followed the trail of radiation back to two suspects who had met him in a bar in london where he drank half a cup of tea which was laced with polonium. arrest warrants were issued but russia refuses to extradite the two men. we caught up with one of them in moscow. he admitted he met him in london. >> translator: and now for eight years i am under suspicion. >> you are under suspicion because the investigation says there was polonium in that teapot. did you put any polonium in the tea? >> translator: of course not. i was tested for polonium and i tested positive. did i put polonium into myself? am i an i

the kgb described these messages as highly valuable.ext was a book that detailed the espionage carried out by members of the rosenberg ring. both had escaped the united states before the fbi had a chance to arrest them. they ended up in the soviet union, where they used their expertise to develop the microelectronics industry and create moscow's version of silicon valley. most recently, alan harmed them -- alan hornblume wrote "the invisible harry gold. " he explains sympathetically why he decided to engage in espionage and reaches the conclusion that gold told the truth and that julius rosenberg and his colleagues were not. gold was labeled either rosenbergs defenders as a delusional psychotic. whereas they were portrayed as innocent wanderers. gold was very intent at making amends for what he considered traitorous acts and telling the truth, although his lawyers had legal ground that would have allowed gold to escape indictment and prosecution. the most recent damning news was a confession to sam robertson in 2008, that he was indeed