Umbrella-Killer Hunt Widens ; Retro Report September, 1978 How We Covered ... Edited by Tony Woolway

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SECRET service agents yesterday joined Scotland Yard in the "poisoned umbrella" case, as detectives asked taxi drivers to help them track down a man with a thick foreign accent.

Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov, right, died in a London hospital on Monday night, five days after the man with the foreign accent stabbed him in the leg with an umbrella in the London rush- hour.

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Umbrella-Killer Hunt Widens ; Retro Report September, 1978 How We Covered ... Edited by Tony Woolway

Mr Markov, aged 49, who worked for the BBC Overseas Service an...

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