A Very Private Plot

Authors: Buckler, William, 1814-1884

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“He had read every word in it. There was nothing there—nothing—to suggest that Vitaly Primakov had been a Soviet dissident, let alone that he would one day attempt to assassinate the leader of the Soviet Union. He and his sister Mariya were children of two farmers, both of them dead, who had worked in a collective in Okateyvsky. Vitaly had served honorably in Afghanistan, was discharged as a corporal. Vitaly had worked in the secondary school as a clerk-assistant to the director, who was most vi...gorously interrogated and could come up with not one incident in which Vitaly ever manifested any grievance against the regime. He then left Pitkin, as the administration referred to it, to take another job as a clerk, working alongside his sister. No one at the post office had any reason to suspect any subversive inclinations in Vitaly. Mariya’s record was as clean as her brother’s.
But the cyanide business!
“Let’s face it, Bibikov,” he addressed his assistant, “you do not find post office clerks who have handy supplies of cyanide.MoreLess Read More Read Less