Russia Expert and Critic Paul Joyal Shot
March 2, 2007 by Homeland Security NTARC News
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FBI agents say they are assisting police in suburban Washington who are investigating the shooting of a Russian expert a man who spoke out on “Dateline NBC” last weekend and strongly suggested that remnants of the KGB were responsible for the bizarre poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko.
Officials said Paul Joyal was walking up his driveway on Lackawanna Street at about 7:30 p.m. when he was confronted by two men and shot. He was taken to an area hospital in serious condition.
Neighbors said police responded quickly to the shooting.
Nothing appears to have been taken from Joyal and a witness claimed to have heard one of the men tell the other man to go ahead and shoot Joyal.
Earlier, at about 6 p.m., Joyal met his friend, Oleg Kalugin, at the Spy Museum. Kalugin, an ex-KGB general, is an advisory director of the museum. After he was shot, Joyal told his wife to call Kalugin to tell him about the shooting, sources told Collins.
The FBI is assisting Prince George’s County police in the investigation.
Joyal is a vice president at National Strategies Inc., directing the Law Enforcement and Public Safety division. He was a federal law enforcement officer and director of security for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence from 1980 to 1989.
Joyal is on the Prince George’s County Law Enforcement Task Force as well as Gov. Martin O’Malley’s public safety transition team.
He is also frequently interviewed by media outlets about counter-terrorism and intelligence matters. Recently, he appeared on “Dateline” and was critical of Russian President Vladymir Putin and the death of a former Russian spy who drank radioactive tea in London.
In a strange twist, another man who also appeared on the “Dateline” broadcast died of a heart attack last month. Reporter Daniel McGrory of the Times of London, who has written about the Litvinenko case, died Feb. 20, before the “Dateline” segment was broadcast. He was 54. His family said he “died suddenly at home.
