Will Russian Police Files Link Russia To Last Month's Salisbury Nerve Agent Attack In The U.K.?

The Guardian: UK and US given case file on 'nerve agent made in Russian lab'

Exclusive: Papers may shed light on Russia’s production of chemical used in Salisbury spy poisoning

British and American authorities have been given several chemical analyses of a substance believed to be a novichok nerve agent produced in Russia’s closed Shikhany military facility, a Russian lawyer has told the Guardian.

Boris Kuznetsov, who fled Russia in 2007, said he had handed British diplomats the police case files from the 1995 murder of a Russian banker and his secretary with a toxic substance, which scientists have identified as a product of the Soviet-designed Foliant programme.

A related nerve agent was used in the Salisbury poisoning last month.

The documents, some of which had previously been leaked by the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, were given to British diplomats in Latvia in March, Kuznetsov said. He told the Guardian he had also handed the case files to US authorities.

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WNU Editor: I do not know if these files will be of any help. The Guardian itself admits that the agents that were used in the Salisbury poisoning last month "is a related nerve agent" .... not the agent that is outlined in these case files. And as for this report .... Report: Britain believes it has found Russian lab that made nerve agent used in Salisbury attack (CBS/AP) .... when you read the CBS/AP report there is an admission that they are not 100% sure on where this agent may come from, but instead are relying on a combination of scientific analysis and other intelligence to conclude that the nerve agent came from Russia. What this tells me is that the nerve agent that was used has some similarities to past Russian nerve agents (no exact mention on what those similarities are), but the main reason why U.K. intelligence is blaming the Kremlin is because Sergei Skripal was a former Russian intelligence officer, and this made him a marked man. On a more positive note, Sergei Skripal appears to be recovering .... Poisoned Russian agent Sergei Skripal recovering rapidly, hospital says (Reuters).