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Report: Russia's Chemical Weapons Commander Was Targeted by Israel's Mossad
(Ynet News) Ronen Bergman - Gen. Anatoly Kuntsevich, considered the head of the Soviet Union project to develop nerve agents in the 1970s and 1980s, was for many years in the sights of an Israeli intelligence analyst. In the 1990s, Kuntsevich received huge sums of money in exchange for divulging his knowledge of nerve agents to Syria, and for providing equipment for developing deadly chemical weapons. Israel told senior officials in the Kremlin that chemical weapons were being sold by Kuntsevich to the Syrians, but this effort failed to yield results. On April 29, 2002, in circumstances that remain unknown, Kuntsevich died during a flight from Aleppo to Moscow. A top secret CIA document from the same period says that Syria managed, by the time of his death, to produce a large stockpile of particularly lethal chemical weapons.