Georgi Markov

…most famous being Bulgarian writer Georgi Markov, who died in London in 1978 after being stabbed with an umbrella that inserted a poisonous ricin-laced platinum pellet into his leg. RFE/RL headquarters in Munich was bombed in 1981 by terrorists underwritten by the Romanian government and headed by Venezuelan militant Carlos…

…assassination occurred in 1978, when Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian exile living in London, was stabbed in the leg with the tip of an umbrella that injected a tiny hollow sphere containing ricin into his body. Within three days Markov was dead. During the 1990s defectors from the KGB (the former…