It was a case that seemed more at home in one of Ian Fleming's novels than reality. On September 7, 1978, Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian dissident writer working for the , felt a slight sharp pain while waiting for a bus on Waterloo Bridge in London.After looking behind him, he saw a man picking an umbrella up off the ground. Four days later - exactly 45 years ago today - Markov was dead.
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