RUSSIAN tycoon Boris Berezovsky was assassinated by British spies after threatening to expose photographs dubbed “royal porn” allegedly featuring a young Prince Philip, a Moscow espionage author has sensationally claimed.
The pictures, said to show the Duke of Edinburgh at Thursday Club parties, were rumoured to have been taken by his photographer friend Baron Nahum in the 1950s.
The private photographs are thought to have been secretly copied by a Soviet spy, who then smuggled them back to Russia during the Cold War.
Russian intelligence expert Gennady Sokolov has now made the startling claims there was evidence that the one-time billionaire Berezovsky had managed to come into possession of the controversial photographs taken by spy Yevgeny Ivanov.
He claimed Berezovsky had likely handed the photographs to the British authorities, so in theory taking them out of circulation and preventing the risk of an humiliating publication, as part of his successful effort to gain political asylum in Britain, so avoiding jail time in Russia. Full story...
The pictures, said to show the Duke of Edinburgh at Thursday Club parties, were rumoured to have been taken by his photographer friend Baron Nahum in the 1950s.
The private photographs are thought to have been secretly copied by a Soviet spy, who then smuggled them back to Russia during the Cold War.
Russian intelligence expert Gennady Sokolov has now made the startling claims there was evidence that the one-time billionaire Berezovsky had managed to come into possession of the controversial photographs taken by spy Yevgeny Ivanov.
He claimed Berezovsky had likely handed the photographs to the British authorities, so in theory taking them out of circulation and preventing the risk of an humiliating publication, as part of his successful effort to gain political asylum in Britain, so avoiding jail time in Russia. Full story...
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