The Umbrella Murder: The Hunt for the Cold War's Most Notorious Killer

The Umbrella Murder: The Hunt for the Cold War's Most Notorious Killer

In 1978 the Bulgarian author and dissident Georgi Markov was assassinated by a poisoned umbrella on Waterloo Bridge in London. His murder is the most iconic killing in almost five decades of the Cold …

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