Byline: Wendy Sloane Associated Press
KGB agents secretly poisoned Alexander Solzhenitsyn at a store's candy counter in a bungled 1971 assassination attempt that left the dissident writer with serious burns, a journalist reported Monday.
The Sovershenno Sekretno (Top Secret) newspaper said it received a letter from Solzhenitsyn saying he never knew what caused the large burns over most of his body. It took him about three months to heal.
Another newspaper, Izvestia, also reported on the mysterious attack. It said Bulgarian secret agents treated an umbrella with the same type of poison in 1978 and used it to kill dissident Georgi Markov in London. …
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