This month I filed a defamation lawsuit against two Russian state television channels that have falsely accused me of murdering the Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko on behalf of the CIA in 2006 in London — and then of doing away with my own wife, who, they claim, “talked too much.” The truth is that Litvinenko died from poisoning with radioactive polonium-210 slipped into his tea by two Russian agents. My wife died of cancer. And I do not work for the CIA. It’s truly an eerie feeling being named a double murderer to an audience of millions — not to mention the fact that every CIA-hating terrorist in the world will now see me as a target. So I am trying to fight back. Yet current U.S. law offers me and people who share my fate little in the way of viable defense.
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Alex Goldfarb: I’m a critic of Putin’s regime. Russian state TV is accusing me of murder
Copies of the book "Death of a Dissident" by Alex Goldfarb and Marina Litvinenko are displayed at a press conference to launch the book at the Foreign Press Association in London, June 19, 2007.
