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Title: Rasputin assassinated by British Secret Service - BBC Timewatch documentary
Source: bbc.co.uk
URL Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pr ... 09_september/19/rasputin.shtml
Published: Sep 19, 2004
Author: Press Office
Post Date: 2006-12-22 10:02:56 by Destro
Keywords: Rasputin, Russia, British
Views: 167
Comments: 5

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Rasputin assassinated by British Secret Service - BBC Timewatch documentary

Category: Factual & Arts TV

Date: 19.09.2004

A forthcoming BBC Timewatch documentary, Who Killed Rasputin? - BBC TWO, Friday 1 October, 9.00pm - proves that Rasputin was murdered by British Secret Service operatives.

The programme-makers re-opened the investigation into his death and found conclusive evidence to suggest that Rasputin was murdered in St Petersburg in 1916 in a plot hatched by rogue members of the British Secret Service – with a fatal shot fired at close range by Secret Agent Oswald Rayner.

The documentary is based on extraordinary new evidence uncovered by intelligence historian, and programme consultant, Andrew Cook.

In addition, BBC Timewatch brought in Richard Cullen, former Metropolitan Police Commander, and a trainer of police cadets in forensic detective work in Russia, to re open the case.

Re-examining the original autopsy reports, Richard Cullen found that the original explanation for Rasputin's death did not tally with the forensic evidence.

In particular, he questions one of the key autopsy photographs which shows a gunshot wound situated in the centre of Rasputin's forehead, which bears the hallmarks of a professional assassination.

The accepted version of Rasputin's death states that he was poisoned, then shot, and finally drowned in the River Nevka by five disaffected aristocrats, led by Prince Felix Yusupov.

The conspirators were said to be concerned about Rasputin's influence on Tsar Nicholas II, and his wife Tsarina Alexandra.

Over the years historians have questioned Yusupov's version of events but failed to come up with credible alternative theories.

In Yusupov's memoirs, Cullen noted the presence of a character called Oswald Rayner - said to be a friend of Yusupov's from Oxford University, who appears suddenly in the book at the time of the murder.

The Timewatch team discovered that Oswald Rayner was in fact an active British Secret Intelligence Service operative who was working alongside senior SIS officer, John Scale.

Scale's daughter provided Cullen with key evidence of the murder plot and Andrew Cook, consultant to the programme, uncovered an official memo on British Intelligence Mission notepaper to Captain John Scale, which led Cullen directly to the assassin.

"I am amazed by the outcome of the investigation," states Cook, "when we initially began researching the story I had no idea that the forensic evidence would substantiate the historical documentation so conclusively."

Richard Cullen says of the investigation: "I was stunned that the trail of Rasputin's murder led so conclusively to the British Secret Service.

"In all John Scale's official documentation Rasputin is referred to as 'Dark Forces' and it is my belief that Rasputin was a seen a real threat to the British.

"Had he persuaded the Tsar to pull out of the First World War, the Allies would have been overwhelmed on the Western Front by German troops no longer needed to fight the Russians in the East."

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#1. To: All, Red Jones (#0)

Red Jones

Ever read about that Rasputin fellow? evil spiritual forces.

I posted this in response to Red Jone's above comment. I mean no disrespect to Red so I want to get that clear but his comment clicked a memory bank and I pulled up this article because the phrase used matched the British agent's assesment of Rasputin so I thought this forum may like to be exposed to some info they had probably not heard of before.

"The desire to rule is the mother of heresies." -- St. John Chrysostom

Destro  posted on  2006-12-22   10:09:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Destro (#1)

I had thought that Rasputin himself may have been a spook. Interesting article. I'd like to see the documentary.

"They say Justice is blind and I agree ... so much so that she hasn't found her way into a courtroom since 1938"

noone222 12-17-06

noone222  posted on  2006-12-22   11:54:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Destro (#0)

Who decided to preserve his uhm..,

http://www.waytorussia.net/news/2004-04/russian-sex-museum.html

"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."
---Henry Kissinger, New York Times, October 28, 1973

robin  posted on  2006-12-22   13:07:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Destro (#1)

Interesting when considered in the light of Sidney Reilly's later exploits in the Soviet.

Of course, RasPutin himself is quite the mystery.

A sexual impresario, an animalistic, shamanistic mystic of Russian Orthodoxy who had the Tsarina wrapped around his..... wonder how the rest of the Church viewed him.

And his prediction about the Czar and his family did come true.

swarthyguy  posted on  2006-12-22   13:43:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: swarthyguy (#4)

Interesting when considered in the light of Sidney Reilly's later exploits in the Soviet.

Sidney Reilly - Georgi Rosenblum in Odessa, former Russian Empire (now Ukraine) - stole the plans for the Russian defenses at Port Arthur and sold them to the Japanese (the Brits backed the Japs against Czarist Russia then - which came back to bite them in the ass) and then made a fortune from the war selling the Russians supplies.

Shortly before the Russo-Japanese War, Reilly appeared in Port Arthur, Manchuria, as a double-agent serving both the British and the Japanese interests (Deacon 1987). As the Russian-controlled Port Arthur lay under the ever-darkening specter of Japanese invasion, Reilly and business co-partner Moisei (Moses) Akimovich Ginsburg turned the precarious situation to their financial benefit and – by purchasing enormous amounts of food, raw materials, medication and coal – acquired a small fortune as war profiteers (Cook 2004).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S idney_Reilly

"The desire to rule is the mother of heresies." -- St. John Chrysostom

Destro  posted on  2006-12-22   15:24:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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