Word: markov
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...post-mortem indicated death by asphyxiation: the victim had suffocated in his own blood after breaking his nose. But two of Simeonov's countrymen had just come forth with bizarre tales suggestive of a cloak-and-dagger conspiracy concocted by the legendary S.M.E.R.S.H. Since one of the two, Georgi Markov, 49, a friend of Simeonov's and also a BBC broadcaster, had just been murdered in diabolical fashion, Scotland Yard was asking some very stern questions about Simeonov's "fall...
...mystery began Sept. 7, as Markov was walking near Waterloo Bridge to the BBC's External Services Building. In front of a crowded bus stop, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his right thigh and turned to see a heavy-set man carrying an umbrella. "I am sorry," the man muttered in a thick accent, then hopped into a taxi. The same evening, Markov developed a high fever. Four days later he died, but not before telling friends that he thought he had been stabbed by a poison-tipped umbrella wielded by a Communist agent...