Eight stories from KGB documents, court records and the archives that opened after 1991.
A Soviet officer sent to organise a murder, who warned his target instead and was poisoned with thallium three years later. A cyanide gun hidden in a rolled-up newspaper on a staircase in Munich. Eight people who sat down on Red Square, and the doctors who declared two of them insane. Two men who took a photograph with an old man by a river, then asked him where to send it. A pellet the size of a pinhead on Waterloo Bridge. Two Soviet doctors who saved Afghanistan's president, hours before their own side killed him. The father of the Soviet H-bomb, force-fed in exile while the KGB sold films of him eating to the West. A poet who died in a punishment cell in the Urals.