The death was officially ruled an accident, but two FBI agents say Vladimir Putin's former media czar was the victim of a Russian hit in a Dupont Circle hotel room on the eve of a planned meeting with the Justice Department. In the latest installment of a series on lethal Kremlin skulduggery, BuzzFeed reports that some American officials fear the threat has hit home.
From BuzzFeed:
Lesin's death raised “concerns” that the Kremlin would start “doing here what they do with some regularity in London,” said a former high-level national security official who recently left government. Altogether, 18 current and former intelligence, law enforcement, and other federal officials told BuzzFeed News that they question the official story of how Lesin died.
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