Alexei Navalny tricks spy into explaining attempted assassination

A Russian spy who followed Alexei Navalny was tricked by the opposition leader into explaining how an attempted poisoning went down in August.

The agent, Konstantin Kudryavtsev, told Navalny, who posed during a phone call as a senior National Security Council officer trying to understand how the botched assassination went wrong, that the nerve agent Novichok was used in the poisoning. Unlike other Russian assassination attempts using the chemical, which involve applying a liquid or gel containing the nerve agent to surfaces such as doorknobs, Russian operatives put powdered Novichok in Navalny’s underwear, according to CNN.