NEWSWATCH: “Poisoned Door Handle Hints at High-Level Plot to Kill Spy, U.K. Officials Say” – New York Times/Ellen Barry, David E. Sanger

“British officials investigating the poisoning of Sergei V. Skripal … former Russian double agent, believe it is likely that an assassin smeared a nerve agent on the door handle at his home. … so risky and sensitive that it is unlikely to have been undertaken without approval from the Kremlin …. Skripal … was freed in a spy swap with the United States …  [he] is still in critical condition and unresponsive … [his daughter] is conscious and talking …. Because the nerve agent is so potent … the task could have been carried out only by trained professionals familiar with chemical weapons. …”

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