Cold War Mystery - The Umbrella Assassin
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- Documentary about the Bulgarian dissident poisoned by the tip of an umbrella in central London.
7th September 1978, Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian living in London was travelling to work. Following his usual routine he left his car and crossed Waterloo Bridge. He had no idea that on this day he was being watched. As Markov waited for a bus he felt something sting his leg, he turned to see a man picking up an umbrella and running away. What seemed at first like a curious accident turned into an extraordinary detective story, when three days later, Markov died.
The incident became legendary because of the weapon used - it’s one of the strangest tales of the Cold War, peppered with poisons, political intrigue, and ingenious gadgets.
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Thank you for this documentary, I can sleep 😴 tonight. Those of us that need Cold War content to sleep 😴 appreciate it.
CZcams is better than any sleeping pill. Always looking for some older weird documentaries and after 10 minutes I'm dead. Highly recommend old IRA documentaries if you run out of content. There are so many of them, interesting but also pretty good to falls asleep to.
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Lol not only you 😂
How can I sleep tonight? Look at my government; look at my president.
You guys want to sleep? Switch off all your electronics... simple....
Excellent documentary every which way. Crisp and riveting. The choice of music is awesome. History becomes so interesting when told in such an attractive way.
Finally a proper documentary
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The documentary was very interesting from the start to the end. Great work!
Excellent work! Thank you.
Great Documentary video..
I love your videos (and your wonderful voice!).
This is not about an assassin. This is about an assassination. The title should reflect that. Kudos to the original pathologist for his thought and care during the autopsy. I realize it's his job to be careful, but he went the extra mile.
The assasain was fransesco Gullino, an Italiano with danish citizenship who was Working for the Bulgarien secret service.
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Nothing screams innocence like everyone who knows you being far too scared to help anyone locate you!! "He's just a picture framer." "Ok; and can you tell me where he is?" "Hell no, I don't want a horrific death...!"
this is the best documentary j have ever seen. ty for not using a actual scary murder… not saying this isnt scary, but yk what i mean
Hello Admin. This is truly an intriguing revelation. How sad that Georgi Markov was assassinated which finally was inconclusive. Thank you for the uploading.
It is not inconclusive that he was assassinated. The assassin can't be definitely tracked down - I think it quite obvious that it was done by Bulgaria's communist regime
That’s a great idea. This should be a movie about my great uncle Georgie. Looks like my dad. I’m trying to carry the torch because of the communist now in America/White House!!! and Media.
Bad ass Bulgarian. My great uncle I was lucky to have both Bulgarian and Icelandic/Viking blood yeah
Shame on the doctor for not taking things seriously. Even if the story was far-fetched they should have run tests if the man consented.
Shame on you for thinking anyone cares what you think 😂
That's NHS... Like now it's even worse. They are there only because someone will pay them... They don't do it to take care of people in need, they want more money 🤑
Well they did what they have to but they also help the poison move more rapidly in his body. The case from France is simply luck and cuz he refused to go to the doctor's and decided to stay home in the bed. The story here isn't exactly accurate. There was very small amount of poison in the second "disc" as the wax haven't resolved properly and the poison didn't move that fast through out his system
Bond lives
Well done, Q.
I remember this well, a lot of confusion at the time over what where how and why
Think how small the pellet must've been, to be delivered via a hypodermic needle! That's really quite an impressive bit of tech! Creating such a weapon must've taken a lot of R&D
Jus think about what’s too secret NOW 😮
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It never came out of a hypodermic, she said that’s what the mark looked like
@@Spiritofaconure Yes, it was a jet injection
The beginning of this story is a perfect example of one of the basic flaws of mankind and that is the acceptance level. People are terrified to be ridiculed and so will accept nothing that is not already 'general knowledge'. It is the best protection against secrets: something must be made so egregious that is surpasses the acceptance level of peers and authorities. And group acceptance levels are much lower than individual acceptance levels.
Truth really is stranger than fiction.
24:49 that’s horrible pigs are so smart, and such sweet animals, I wish we didn’t do this to animals
In the year 2000, the late Sir Teddy Taylor MP, deposited a file in the House of Commons Library. Two years later the late Leader of the House, Robin Cook, made deposited files available to journalists. The file is known as the Markov File, and documents how the Markov assassination led to the Moscow Coup of August 1991, which led to the break up of the Soviet Union. Markov was the victim of a British double agent. He had wanted to return home and had sent a letter to Deputy Interior Minister General Stoyan Savov asking what his sentence would be if he returned home. A British double agent, a woman, was very well connected and was consulted. She said 'He's not very discrete, is he?' This one sentence resulted in Markov's plea being rejected, and his being sentenced to death. After two failed attempts, the KGB provided the pneumatic gun/pen that was used to kill Markov. The notorious umbrella was not a weapon. It was a prop that was dropped by the killer with his left hand so as to permit him him to bend down and fire the pellet into Markov's thigh with his right hand. Markov didn't notice the pen and later assumed that the umbrella had been the weapon. The pellet was not discovered at the hospital and Dr Iain West, a forensic pathologist working for MI5, was ordered to find and extract the pellet, so that the killing could be pinned on the KGB. Thirteen years later, in August 1991, the killing resulted in the firing of the two chiefs of the Bulgarian Intelligence Service (the First Chief Directorate) by the new pro-Western President, Zhelyu Zhelev. For various reasons, this precipitated the unplanned Moscow Coup by the KGB a few days later. The House of Commons file documents all the details. The Markov assassination was one of the most important events of the 20th century.
Its not correct what you are wrote.
where did you get the mushrooms?
The umbrella has been revealed in other documentaries. It showed the blueprints of the inner mechanical workings for injecting poison through the tip. They said the umbrella was created by British intelligence
Is there a book detailing that?
@@lewiskaniaru3169 honestly I ran across that diagram online years ago. Since then there has been a documentary called Third Eye Spy's that mentions it and it states that it was created by British Intelligence. You can watch the video online for free on CZcams. It's all real and I suggest you have all your friends and family watch it. It only gives you a peek into the intelligence apparatus but believe me the technology has become much more advanced and it is pervasive throughout all Nations. I'm a American citizen and I believe that the US government is the biggest threat to all people's of all Nations in the world. Start with this documentary and then start doing your own research. Sadly it's a rabbit hole you my not wish to see. But I believe that knowledge is power and all people deserve Peace Happiness and Freedom. Good Luck on you learning experience. Be careful with your mind. Don't fall for all the propaganda. Us your own sixth sense and rationality.
Thanks
Top marks to the forensics team that worked this.
Dropping that ball on the dusty floor?
Great Doc Vid , but ah felt for the poor Piggy ...
This documentary is 15+ years old.
It would be wonderful if there would be an update on it somehow.
why?
Why? Are you being serious?
why
A lot of things changed in Bulgaria over the past 15 years.
I actually think "why" is a rather stupid question.
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maybe Thor Nil is KGB
I cant believe someone talking about my country with such interest and a story Ive never heard of. As u can probably guess my older relatives and family have plenty of stories about those times, all very fascinating and very interesting, almost making u wanna be there to see it urself.I would love to hear more from this period of history, and also the victims name is probably Georgi and not George but I get it
Give me that cat.
That your real name?
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Scary to think these thing actually happened.
4:28 Catching flies in mid-flight is not that difficult, and many people can do it. I'm surprised they are making such a big deal about it.
There was an umbrella man. Standing near the motor Cade in Dallas when Kennedy was shot.
totally unrelated
What about grassy Knoll
Umbrella Man in Dallas came forward years ago. He had nothing to do with any assassination plots.
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@@djquinn11 The public "Umbrella Man" was a faker, to throw off suspicion. If you see the real Umbrella Man in the Zapruder film he is standing still at the right side of the Stemmons freeway sign, in front of it. In reality, evidenced by the Willis Photo #5, he was on the rear side of the sign 10 feet downhill. The throat shot at Z220 was supposed to hit JFK in the head and kill him. But this bullet dropped 8 inches too low. Umbrella Man's job was to check out JFK's head as he passed and signal for more shots from the grassy knoll if needed. His companion, a Cuban seen with a walkie-talkie, had that option to call for more JFK shots as well. Plenty of witnesses saw Umbrella Man pumping his umbrella up and down even though that was censored from Zapruder.
If you look at the Willis 5 photo, you will see Zapruder had a straight-line view of JFK's head and limousine going under the Stemmons sign. In other words, Zapruder did indeed film JFK and his car going by. But in the Zapruder film as hoaxed, the sign is enlarged three- or four-fold to cover up JFK as he is being shot. JFK's transit time behind the sign was only 0.77 seconds, and that is not enough time for any assassin to work a rifle bolt that fast. Zapruder thus proves there was at least a second JFK assassin. The Stemmons sign is big enough to cover up about a fourth of JFK's car (from Zapruders position of reference) yet the faking of the Stemmons sign to huge enlargement appears to let the sign cover up almost the full length of the JFK limousine at Zapruder frame 204. To complete the JFK assassination cover up, the conspirators couldn't afford to let people see JFK actually being shot in the shoulder at Z206 and the throat at Z220. Literal cover-up by faking Zapruder.
If you look at Z220 in Costella Combined Edit or similar, you will see the upper right corner of the Stemmons sign has a slight flat spot. In the frames before and after, this fake enlarged sign was cut and pasted with more care and the upper right corner is fully rounded. At Z155 you can see the yellow car's front tire is suddenly insanely thick, and the yellow cars floats off the pavement by about a foot. Z155 is when the commence-fire shot was fired from the roof of the Records Building to let all the sniper teams know it was time to begin shooting, even if people were having radio trouble. This bullet aimed at the pavement was pyrotechnic, to be distinctive, and issued forth multi-colored sparks when it hit. A companion pyrotechnic cease-fire bullet was shot into the pavement at the foot of the grassy knoll, once JFK's head was seen to have exploded by the spotters inside Zapruder's offices at sixth floor Dal-Tex building. Zapruder spent the half-hour before noon Nov. 22 encouraging everybody "Get out, get out, we all have a presidential parade to go see! Everybody out!" That way the management crew and radiomen and snipers could start setting up right after noon.
In case Zapruder's camera failed, across the street was Babushka Lady filming the same scene. Both knew ahead of time where to position themselves. Curious how Babushka Lady never stepped forward for her fame and her million dollars. Curious how Dan Marvin, at Green Beret sniper training school at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, saw the Babushka Lady's film in sniper training class. After the movie was played and the lights came up, the instructor told everybody "This is a perfect example of how to conduct an urban sniper assassination." A little later, a CIA agent solicited Dan Marvin to murder Lt. Cmdr. William Bruce Pitzer inside Bethesda hospital because he was a "disloyal security risk." In reality, Pitzer had true untampered film of the JFK autopsy which, if it got out, would prove JFK was shot from the front as well as the rear. Marvin declined the offer and it was taken care of by someone else. Marvin has a clue it was one of his fellow Green Berets.
Beverly Oliver falsely claimed several years later to be Babushka Lady (like the false claim about Umbrella Man's identity) however Babushka Lady shows up on photo stills crossing Elm St. to get to the grassy knoll right after JFK was shot, and she was an old biddie in her sixties, maybe Mrs. Zapruder. Oliver however was a nubile young 17-year old who loved to show off her abundant hair and her ample curves.
What a terrible job at hiding the identify of the guy who agreed to speak with you. You could have at least disguised his voice and not gotten a full side shot of his build.
If anyone that knows him sees this they would immediately be able to recognize him. I wonder if he ever faced any retaliation for speaking to you.
It's a awful that even doctor don't believed him.
As a Danish citizen I am shocked!
Great narriator, great music !
Are you kidding me? Anybody could be an enemy
Anything can happen at the bus stop.
a thought ... i wonder how many people had a similar assassination attempt but the "waxy" material didn't dissolve. How many people may be walking around with a ticking bomb in their system? its a scary thought
..and how many are simply dead.
Wax melts very easily. What you're stating does not make sense.
I have read this story in reader's digest long time ago
Why would the ricin even need the pellets? To delay the poisoning maybe?
I'm wondering, why they let Jack Hamilton, after all his involvement in the case, to investigate for so long ...
I worked that case. But where's Kuznetzov and Simeonov.
With the umbrella assassin's only operate during inclement weather a limiting factor if you have a large hit list.
I’m thinking the umbrella was the decoy, allowing him to administer the dose via hypodermic needle while bent over.
No, they actually found a injector like part filled with the poison in his leg, witch was releasing more poison in his blood stream. It was a syringe on the tip of the umbrella witch delivered the object to his body.
So obviously I made this comment before seeing the cut-away umbrella 😂🤦🏻♂️
The doctor in this story is working hard to appear thick. The man told you he was poisoned and the doctor is suspecting a snake bite😢. At the beginning of the story he was ridiculing him for telling them what was wrong with him
Why so many people on this documentary willing to absolve others of their responsibility for their actions they should all be held accountable including that little punk Italian nobody should be let off the hook unbelievable
I wonder if. the term "skidnik" is derived from the American "skid row." I don't know if that term is used in British Commonwealth Countries or not.
@@hunnid17 Thanks for the education.
12:25 I'm sure he is right about that. It reminds me of the murder of Anna Politkovskaja on Putin's birthday, October 7 th. Earlier I watched the documentary ''Poisoned - a documentary about Russia's assassinations using poison'' , and when Anna Politkovskaja spoke about how bullets were out of fashion and people were apathetic to people simply being shoot, I could picture Putin watching her interview and thus he decided to murder her by a bullet, instead of poison (she had been poisoned earlier but survived). Another interesting date ifor a message is the birthday to the founder of the Cheka, Felix Dzerzhinsky, September 11th, it's also interesting how his birthday was celebrated in back 2001.
I fail to see the America's 9/11 connection.
it can be crocodile bile
Could he have been saved if the problem had been promptly identified?
Pity about the music.
Bulgarian historian and ex internal affairs Bojidar Dimitrov says, that Georgi Markov has turned double agent and started working for the UK secret service. And in his mind Markov was killed 75% by a UK agent and 25% from a Bulgarian agent for his betrayal.
"If one turns a double agent, there life expectancy is five years." Bojidar Dimitrov
DS Bulgaria era servizio efficiente e spietato☠️
David Sanchez Morales was a key player in the JFK assassination and other CIA operations. He was being summoned to testify to the U.S. Senate as of May 1978, so he was invited to a reunion of the good-old-boys network to have some drinks and backslapping and reminiscences of the good old days in Washington DC on May 5, 1978 with his CIA buddies. On the plane back to Arizona, he felt weird and ill at ease. It was worse on May 6 and by May 7 he had had a heart attack. The ambulance took an hour to arrive, and the attendants refused to give him oxygen. His hospital room was ringed by sheriff's deputies so nobody could get to him to get it right from the horse's mouth what had happened (either with the JFK assassination or how he had been done in as a guy who would be like the movie "D.O.A" from 1949, expecting to die and now maybe willing to talk). On the third day, May 8, 1978, he was in such rough shape his wife was persuaded to allow discontinuation of life support. As the case of Markov illustrates, ricin usually kills in about 4 days. But with Morales he, being a big guy, looks like he got a double dose and died on the third day.
Some People are resorting to that with those beans as we speak...yet was not resorting to it until recent few months.. saw those beans and something just felt off about it/them.
sad story, I grow up during the end of the cold war area and now we are going back.....
Anyway, the biggest mistake was his daily routine, it's a human thing. Humans are just too lazy...
My grandmother could catch a fly mid air too
Hiram Holiday.
If he had a labrador none of this would have happened. The assassin was very fond of labradors.
I share all the comments made, I would have appreciated less music I don’t know why on some documentaries they feel that irritating music being played while someone is talking
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I was in a very similar circumstance
Those who condem terrorists are themselves guilty of supporting terrorist.
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RIP Gonzalo Lira
You do sketchy unmoral things, your bound to be questioned beyond belief for years once it comes to life. Every action has a consequence. Even if not right away.
I wish that was a live option for me, when I commit a murder, or help cover up a crime!! "I'm afraid that matter is closed, I'm fed up of being questioned, I'm an old man now, I did it ages ago, this isn't fair, go away!"
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Corruption means if one kid is supposed to have one lunch a DAY and usually eats nine then most likely he, is corrupt. She is getting ready to help 👿 STEAL meals. Later
Another good documentary totally ruined by distracting and unnecessary music.
These Documentaries are interesting KGB did not justify a target,it was not even clear if is a way of blame? Western media always justified a target & did it publicly like Kadaffi & NATO but it is the same thing.Every storie has two sides.
100% agree.... The sanctimonious BS comments here completely ignoring the wests assassinations lol.
Why are they adding accent in the translation?
As a Bulgarian, I would feel offended.
Whomever was responsible for his death was quite sophisticated. I spoke with the person who did the analysis of the pellet that was removed from his body during the autopsy. It was a platinum sphere, very tiny, with several holes. It contained traces of Ricin, a toxin derived from Castor beans. Whomever made that hollow sphere had very sophisticated technology in order to manufacture it as it was very precise and well made.
Good documentary, thank you. Any murder is awful. Yet I disagree with the statement that Markov was an innocent man. I have experienced the Cold War and if you did the things Markov did, you were guilty in the eyes of the communist regimes. Perhaps hard to imagine nowadays, yet that is how it was back than.
russia still uses similar techniques nowadays, so i don’t think it’s necessary a communist/cold war thing as a shitty government/intelligence agency thing
Seriously?! Even though i understand what your mean, your choice of words make you look like you dont like freedom of press
If that were true, it would mean anybody would be justified in killing you because they disagreed with your politics. If you share the attitude of criminal regimes, you make a criminal of yourself.
Rewrite what reality happens, know a person who discover how it happened with the assassination,
Russian KGB, now FSB and GRU, have a long tradition of political assassinations. They also used the services of their vassal agencies such as the Stasi. In this case the Bulgarian State Security service.
13:56 a brilliant man, not your ordinary pathologist lol 😂 most doctors do not deserve there title, he surely does
I am disgusted with the sentences of such killers and the words towards the uk journalist to stop disturbing them cause they were old. You know what they are-killers and no matter their age they shouldn’t be left unpunished cause their age. Unfortunately for now Bulgarian government wouldn’t say or admit anything cause in fact people in government have past with communism and real suppressed anti communists didn’t have access to serve in the government to punish and expose the crimes made.
Its not about he broke communist laws. Its about a state that murdered a citizen in another state, a state where he is citizen. He broke the laws or not, at last he did not murdered another person, but left to another country that gave him individual freedom, Bulgaria did not.
Does that fact change the way you look at the drone strikes in afghanistan ?
001. The witness said he showed me the mark,it was on his thigh, and wearing a trousers, waiting for a bus would you show your thigh, you can't see it by pulling it,unless you undo the belt and Don the trousers ,but would you do that on a street buss stop showing a women on way to work,😅
The most SHOCKING THING ABOUT THIS WHOLE CASE. is no one is Surprised or even that bothered. That people are creeping about with Tiny death pellets. And in many countries. They don’t even got noticed. Oooh the guy had a heart problem or Ooh he wasn’t well the week before. .
No, it’s not surprising that no one is bothered. Tiny death pellets full of poison sounds like something in a James Bond movie.
Please watch your spelling. "There" is not the same as "their." This advice is for Peter C.
Does not make a lick of sence, But very intresting.
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Brah for all 5hw stuff you gank from discovery and history I sure hope you are a sister company. Can't complain nut,just watch out for the lawyers especially if any ads. (Sponserblock and vanced here hah)
11:33 radio free Europe isnt it still spreading propaganda.
I just wish that you could make the music harder, then one do not need to try to make out what is being said. The most important part have been destroyed with the stupid music. No use to listen from here on 13 minutes. Thank you.
This is how the ICC will bring Putin to justice. Poetic.
I knew a Bulgarian. He wanted to get me in bed. He wanted to jab me with his umbrella! To be fair, it was a pretty BIG umbrella. According to a third party, who HAD let him get his Bulgarian ferrule!
He was a very nice Bulgarian, for what it matters. Talented pianist. No pun, he was a professional pianist.
Haha
Sorry typo. Bob Marley was stabbed in the leg with the umbrella
Bob Marley died because he refused Western style medical treatment for cancer - the same as Steve Jobs, although they otherwise had very little in common.
@@paulperry7091 I realize that. But in a documentary he claimed that he had been stabbed in the leg with a umbrella. After that he started having many medical problems that plagued him for the rest of his life.
@@Badger705 Well, I can't blame Bob Marley for not trusting Babylon.
@@paulperry7091 I found it disturbing when years later I found another documentary that showed the umbrella and said it was created by British Intelligence. It gave me chills.
No ..listen to his assasins death bed confession.. was cia
Apparently journos, nationalists other than those approved by autocratic governments, and other free-thinking people run higher risks of repressions than ordinary everyday persons. That probably explains why people in autocracies learnt long ago to keep their mouths shut, and not criticize governments. Murders and slave labour in Siberia were punishments for noncompliance. Ukrainian history of the 20th century has countless examples, in the millions or 10s of millions. 19th and other times including the present time also. Therefore the attempts to break away from autocratic regimes.
Russia is still doing this in 2023.
Very true.
Russian love poison
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I don't know about these countries but US has no statute of limitations on capital crimes. BTW, this is some real cold war spy stuff here.
No Statute of Limitations in Great Britain!
It was a perfect murder, almost.
9:17 damn she looks way younger than her husband!!!
The British language says it all. Most ruthless. No one in the world can beat what Jews and English people do to other people. Children, nations and continents. If anyone has to come to justice. This would be a great start. Ukraine is most recent example.
English? Or British?
18:25 how diabolical, killers of men never get away free, god will serve his justice, and killers will burn like they deserve for thinking they can break gods laws with impunity, if you do not believe in god ask yourself how geometry is present throughout the universe which indicates an intelligence to nature, and the entire universe
If in the " next life " we'll be published accordingly ,with our this life's sins , how ,or WHAT , criminals like Jivkov , Ceausescu , Stalin ,Hitler and so on , in the "next life " will be ????????????????
Such a great system - communism!
reminds me of the Umbrella Man at the JFK assassination. was he just a cia man giving the “go” signal? or did he fire a paralyzing dart into jfk so he’d be still for the hail of triangulated gunfire that killed him?