Anatoly Trofimov

Anatoly Trofimov ( _ru. Анато́лий Васи́льевич Трофи́мов, "Anatoliy Vasilyevich Trofimov", July 14, 1940 — April 10, 2005) was a retired deputy director of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) who was assassinated in April 2005 by unidentified gunmen while driving near his north Moscow home. Trofimov's wife was also in the car and later died from wounds received during the attack; their four-year-old daughter was also present but survived.

As a deputy head of the Soviet KGB investigation department, Trofimov supervised all cases of dissidents including Sergei Kovalyov, Gleb Yakunin, Alexei Smirnov, and Yuri Orlov. He was later FSB deputy director and head of service for the Moscow region until 1997, when he was fired by Boris Yeltsin after an examination by federal accountants into "gross violations and flaws in his work". According to the Russian newspaper Kommersant, Tromifov had led the investigation into an illegal slush fund operated by Yeltsin's election campaign.

In April 2006, a British MEP for London, Gerard Batten, (UKIP) told the European Parliament that Trofimov had warned defected FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko that there were many KGB agents among Italian politicians and that Romano Prodi, the centre-left Italian Prime Minister and former President of the European Commission, was "our man in Italy". According to Brussels-based newspaper the EU Reporter on 3 April 2006, "another high-level source, a former KGB operative in London, has confirmed the story". [cite web
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Litvinenko, who knew Trofimov personally, told the media that he believed Trofimov's killing was a political assassination, and that Trofimov had opposed both the Chechen War and the earlier appointment of Vladimir Putin as FSB chief. Litvinenko himself later died under mysterious circumstances in November 2006.

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* [http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/04/11/fsbhit.shtml Former FSB General, Wife Shot Dead in Moscow] - Mosnews.com
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4432813.stm Slain Russian officer's wife dies] - BBC News
* [http://www.slate.com/id/2155274/ Alexander Stille, "The secret life of Mario Scaramella"] - Slate.com, Dec. 11, 2006. Alexander Stille is the author of "The Sack of Rome: How a Beautiful European Country with a Fabled History and a Storied Culture Was Taken Over by a Man Named Silvio Berlusconi", Penguin Books, 2006.