Haviland Smith: Analyzing the recent assassination attempt

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Haviland Smith, of Williston, who is a retired CIA station chief who served in East and West Europe as well as the Middle East. His other writings can be seen on rural-ruminations.com.
The established history of Soviet and Russian assassination operations since the birth of the Soviet Union in 1917 should remove any doubt as to the origin of the recent assassination attempt against Sergei V. Skripal and his daughter in Great Britain. It is almost imposs