The FBI has interviewed 'Misha,' an elusive figure whose name has surfaced in the Boston bombing probe, a US government official told CNN Monday, April 29.
Investigators spoke with the man in Rhode Island, the source said, after reports surfaced suggesting members of the suspected bombers' family blame a "Misha" for radicalizing alleged bombing mastermind Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
The man, whose real name is Mikhail Allakhverdov, denies ever encouraging a violent take on Islam, and says he was not Tamerlan's teacher, according to a New York Review of Books writer who says he interviewed "Misha."
"He began telling me he cooperated with the FBI" and had "handed over his computer" and cell phone, reporter Christian Caryl told CNN Monday.
