How Cold War dissident Georgi Markov was murdered with an UMBRELLA: Writer died 45 years ago today after assailant fired pinhead ricin pellet into his leg on Waterloo Bridge ...

As he stood on a London bridge on a cloudy afternoon in September 1978, Georgi Markov didn't know he was being watched. He didn't know that in four days he'd be dead. The 49-year-old Bulgarian ...

Georgi Markov was buried at Whitchurch Canonicurum churchyard in Dorset Credit: Alamy. Only 20 years later, in 2018, when Russian agents poisoned defector Sergei Skripal and his daughter at their ...

Georgi Markov was jabbed with an umbrella which fired a poison pellet into his leg as he crossed Waterloo Bridge. He died three days later – and for almost 35 years mystery has surrounded the ...

After Georgi Markov’s death, investigators with Scotland Yard, which had been told of the threats on Markov’s life, immediately began an intense forensic investigation. An autopsy was ...

Thirty four years on, the murder of Georgi Markov - the Bulgarian dissident poisoned by the tip of an umbrella in central London - remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Cold War.

MONTREAL — Refusing to let a Cold War cold case die, Klaus Dexel investigates the 1978 murder of Georgi Markov in Silenced: Georgi Markov and the Umbrella Murder, following leads he believes ...

LONDON, England (CNN)-- British detectives have launched a fresh probe into the umbrella assassination of Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov nearly 30 years ago, according to reports. Markov, a ...

A journalist believes he has proof pointing to the identity of one of the Cold War’s most notorious villains: the assassin who killed Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov in Britain with a poison ...

The investigation into the assassination of Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov, murdered with a poison-filled pellet shot into his leg (possibly with a converted “umbrella gun”) at a bus stop ...

Georgi Markov was buried at Whitchurch Canonicurum churchyard in Dorset Credit: Alamy. Only 20 years later, in 2018, when Russian agents poisoned defector Sergei Skripal and his daughter at their ...