It’s a classic old remedy for constipation, and I shudder to recall how I was forced to take it when my mother had diagnosed that I was, let us say, in need of relief.
Inside the pellet was a residue of a poison known as ricin! This is a protein that is found in the seeds of the castor bean plant, the same plant that yields castor oil.Ĭastor oil sure conjures up some distasteful memories for me. A perforated tiny metallic pellet was discovered exactly where he had indicated that he had been stabbed. Since he had told his doctors about the jab in the thigh, Markov’s body was carefully examined. The Bulgarian expatriate soon started to feel ill and the next day had to be admitted to the hospital with a high fever and severe abdominal pains. As Markov later recalled, the man was clutching an umbrella. While waiting at that bus stop across from Waterloo station, Markov felt a jab in his thigh, turned around, and saw a man who muttered a quick apology as he quickly got into a taxi. Markov was undeterred, at least until that fateful September day. Obviously, the Bulgarians were not happy with this and threatened to eliminate him if his attacks did not stop.
#RICIN ANTIDOTE FREE#
Here, he began to vigorously attack the Bulgarian government over Radio Free Europe. So he defected to Italy in 1968 and then moved to London in 1971 where he joined the Bulgarian service of the BBC. Markov had become disillusioned with the communist ideology because of the corruption he saw in the higher officials of the government. Just an umbrella! An umbrella specially designed with a spring-loaded device to deliver a pinhead-sized pellet loaded with one of the most potent poisons known to mankind. And what an assassination it was! No guns, no grenades, no knives.
#RICIN ANTIDOTE FULL#
For it was right there, in full daylight, on Thursday, September 7, 1978, that a Bulgarian émigré by the name of Georgi Markov was assassinated by the Bulgarian secret police. I wanted to see with my own eyes the famous spot where one of the most ingenious chemical crimes in history was perpetrated. I wasn’t interested in taking a train, I just wanted to stand at the bus stop right in front of the station. For me, this brings back memories of my last visit to London when I made a point of going to Waterloo station. Ricin is in the news because this potentially potent poison was supposedly detected in a letter addressed to President Trump.
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