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Georgi Markov

For other people by this name, see Georgi Markov (disambiguation).

Georgi Markov
Георги Иванов Марков
Born(1929-03-01)1 March 1929
Sofia, Kingdom of Bulgaria
Died11 September 1978(1978-09-11) (aged 49)
Balham, London, England
Cause of deathRicin poisoning
Occupation(s)Writer, broadcaster, playwright, anti-communist dissident
Notable workThe Truth that Killed

Georgi Ivanov Markov (Bulgarian: Георги Иванов Марков [ɡɛˈɔrɡi ˈmarkov]; 1 March 1929 – 11 September 1978) was a Bulgarian dissident writer. He originally worked as a novelist, screenwriter and playwright in his native country, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, until his defection in 1969. After relocating to London, he worked as a broadcaster and journalist for the BBC World Service, the US-funded Radio Free Europe and West Germany's Deutsche Welle. Markov used such forums to conduct a campaign of sarcastic criticism against the incumbent Bulgarian-Soviet regime, which, according to his wife at the time he died, eventually became "vitriolic" and included "really smearing mud on the people in the inner circles."[1]

Markov was assassinated on a London street via a micro-engineered pellet that might have contained ricin.[2] Contemporary newspaper accounts reported that he had been stabbed in the leg with an umbrella delivering a poisoned pellet, wielded by someone associated with the Bulgarian Secret Service.[3] Annabel Markov recalled her husband's view about the umbrella, telling the BBC's Panorama programme, in April 1979, "He felt a jab in his thigh. He looked around and there was a man behind him who'd apologized and dropped an umbrella. I got the impression as he told the story that the jab hadn't been inflicted by the umbrella but that the man had dropped the umbrella as cover to hide his face."[4] It was reported after the fall of the Soviet Union that the Soviet KGB had assisted the Bulgarian Secret Service.[5][6]

  1. ^ Guardian Staff (14 September 2012). "From the archive, 14 September 1978: Bulgarian dissident killed by poisoned umbrella at London bus stop". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
  2. ^ "Georgi Markov - Death in a Pellet, a report to the Medico-Legal Society" (PDF).
  3. ^ "The poison-tipped umbrella: the death of Georgi Markov in 1978". The Guardian. 9 September 2020.
  4. ^ Panorama, April 1979, 24 October 2014
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference kirilenko was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Rózsa, L.; Nixdorff, K. (2006). "Biological Weapons in Non-Soviet Warsaw Pact Countries". In Wheelis, M.; Rózsa, L.; Dando, M. (eds.). Deadly Cultures: Biological Weapons since 1945. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. pp. 157–168. ISBN 0-674-01699-8.

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