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Word: prussic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agents and hit men have access to numerous James Bondian devices that can make murder look like natural death ?poison delivered by aerosol spray, tiny darts fired from pens or cigarette boxes. In the late '50s a KGB agent killed two Ukrainian exile leaders in Germany by squirting prussic acid into their faces from a fountain pen; the symptoms made it appear that the men had died of simple heart attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Poisonous Umbrella | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

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