Mark Urban - The Skripal Files

Semenko, Mikhail

Sharansky, Natan

Sharov, Andrei

Shikhany facility, Russia

Shkuratov, Yuri

Sigonella air station, Sicily

siloviki (powerful ones)

SIS (Secret Intelligence Service) see MI6

Skripal, Alexander ‘Sasha’

Skripal, Liudmila

grave in Salisbury

illness and death

MI6, knowledge of husband’s meetings with

Richard Bagnall visits in Spain

Sergei Skripal imprisonment and

Sergei Skripal release from prison and

Skripal, Sergei Viktorovich:

Baranov case and see Baranov, Vyacheslav

Britain, chooses to live in

career after retirement from GRU

childhood

CI leads produced for MI6

covert operations, first becomes involved in

diabetes

dissident thoughts, begins to entertain

Dubrovlag penal colony: Izpravitelno Kolony 5 (IK 5)

family and see individual family member name

Florez (Teofilo), source of discovery as British agent and

FORTHWITH, given codename

FSB become interested in

FSB arrest

FSB empty bank accounts of

FSB interrogate

FSB obtaining a confession from, possibility of

GRU assets in UK, helps pinpoint

GRU, attempts to leave

GRU corruption/skimming of VPK funds, informs MI6 of

GRU, joins

GRU organisation and command, hands MI6 chart of

GRU major general, passed over for promotion to post of

GRU, retires from

GRU role in poisoning of, possible

GRU training

Illegals Program spy swap (2010)/pardon and

Izmir, Turkey, meeting with MI6 in

Lefortovo, prisoner in

Madrid GRU posting

Malta GRU posting

Mark Urban interviews (2017)

MI6 buy house for

MI6 debrief after spy swap (2010)

MI6 offer exfiltration to

MI6 meetings with in Spain after initial recruitment

MI6 meetings with (2000–2004)

MI6 payments to

MI6 recruit in Spain

MI6 reaction to poisoning of

MI6 relationship with after retirement from GRU

MI6 relationship with after Illegals Program spy swap (2010)/release from Russia

MI6, sends novels filled with secret writing to

MI6 sends out reporting from in form of CX/Blue Book

Moscow GRU headquarters post

oath, importance of military

poisoning, Salisbury (2018)

activities and motive for

day of the poisoning (4 March 2018)

fight for survival

recovery/life after

property business

Putin, fear of

Railway Social Club, Salisbury, member of

Russian nationalist

Soviet Union, reaction to collapse of

Salisbury house

schooldays

secret writing

sentenced to thirteen years in labour camp (2006)

Soviet Army, service in

Steele dossier and

trial

Ukraine, views on Russia in

Vozdyushno Desantnye Voiska (VDV), service in

Skripal, Valery

Skripal, Viktor

Skripal, Viktoria

Skripal, Yelena

Skripal, Yulia

childhood

education

email account hacked (2013)

jobs in Moscow

language skills

poisoning, Salisbury (2018)

day of the poisoning (4 March 2018)

discharged from Salisbury District Hospital

flight from Moscow to London (3 March 2018) and

life after

Russian embassy presses for access to

statement (11 April 2018)

statement (May 2018)

treatment and recovery

Viktoria Skripal contacts after

Yelena Skirpal, calls after

Salisbury as new home for Sergei Skripal and, chooses

Sergei Skripal imprisonment and

Sergei Skripal release from prison and

Stepan Vikeyev and

Sky News

Smith, Michael

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Soviet Army

Vozdyushno Desantnye Voiska (VDV)

Soviet Union:

Afghanistan conflict (1979–89) and

collapse of/end of Cold War

Moscow coup (1991) and

Spain

Spiez laboratory, Switzerland

‘spy rock’

Stalin, Josef

Starovoitova, Galina

Steele, Christopher

Stepashin, Sergei

Strat-Coms (Strategic Communications), UK

Strategic Coordinating Group, Devizes

stukatchi (prison informers)

Sturgess, Dawn

Sutyagin, Igor

SVR (Russian foreign intelligence service)

Switzerland

Symonds, Tom

Syria

terrorism

Trump, Donald

Ukraine

United Nations (U.N.)

US Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act (1991)

US Mediterranean Fleet

US Navy

US Presidential Election (2016)

Uzbekistan

Vasilenko, Gennady

Vikeyev, Stepan

Vision Airlines

Volodin, Vyacheslav

VPK (Russian Military Industrial Commission)

VX nerve agent

Warsaw Pact

Wilkinson, Lorna

Williamson, Gavin

Wiltshire Police

World Cup (2018)

Yeltsin, Boris

Yushchenko, Viktor

Zaporozhsky, Alexander

Zhdanov Higher Military Engineering School

Zizzi’s restaurant, Salisbury

Soviet Land Power

War in Afghanistan

Big Boys’ Rules

The SAS and the Secret Struggle Against the IRA

UK Eyes Alpha

Inside British Intelligence

The Man Who Broke Napoleon’s Codes

The Story of George Scovell

Rifles

Six Years with Wellington’s Legendary Sharpshooters

Generals

Ten British Commanders Who Shaped the World

Fusiliers

How the British Army Lost America but Learned to Fight

Task Force Black

The Explosive True Story of the SAS and the Secret War in Iraq

The Tank War

The British Band of Brothers – One Tank Regiment’s World War II

The Edge

Is the Military Dominance of the West Coming to an End?

Mark Urban is Diplomatic and Defense Editor of the BBC’s Newsnight. He has covered many of the world’s conflicts during the past twenty-five years, including the Iraq campaign that began in 2003. He lives in London. You can sign up for email updates here.

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