Russian spy case details may be made public

Marina Litvinenko, the widow of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko, speaks with an unidentified person as she arrives for a pre-Inquest review at Camden Town Hall in London, Friday, Nov. 2, 2012. Alexander Litvinenko died in a London hospital in 2006, with the rare radioactive substance polonium-210 being found in his body. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Marina Litvinenko, the widow of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko, speaks with an unidentified person as she arrives for a pre-Inquest review at Camden Town Hall in London, Friday, Nov. 2, 2012. Alexander Litvinenko died in a London hospital in 2006, with the rare radioactive substance polonium-210 being found in his body. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Marina Litvinenko, the widow of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko, arrives for a pre-Inquest review at Camden Town Hall in London, Friday, Nov. 2, 2012. Alexander Litvinenko died in a London hospital in 2006, with the rare radioactive substance polonium-210 being found in his body. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Marina Litvinenko, the widow of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko, arrives for a pre-Inquest review at Camden Town Hall in London, Friday, Nov. 2, 2012. Alexander Litvinenko died in a London hospital in 2006, with the rare radioactive substance polonium-210 being found in his body. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

(AP) ? A British lawyer says previously unreleased details of the British investigation into the murder of ex-Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko may be made public during an inquest into his death.

This would include surveillance footage, medical records and transcripts of witness interviews ? offering a glimpse into the workings of a murder investigation that was full of international intrigue.

Litvinenko died in 2006 after ingesting polonium, a rare radioactive poison. The former Russian FSB agent blamed the Kremlin for his death, and the killing took relations between Moscow and London to a post-Cold War low.

Lawyer Hugh Davies spoke Friday at a preliminary hearing ahead of an inquest into Litvinenko's death. In Britain, inquests are held following unexplained or violent deaths. Litvinenko's is set to begin early in 2013.

Associated Press

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