Putin knew (and therefore ordered - KC) about the radiation terrorist operation in London to murder the Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko, Washington's top diplomat in Europe testified in secret conversations in Paris, reports The Guardian.

The most senior US diplomat in Europe doubted former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko could have been murdered without Vladimir Putin's approval.

  According to new information realized by Wikileaks, the assistant secretary of state, Daniel Fried, in a secret conversation with a French diplomat held four years ago in Paris, questioned that "rogue elements" in Russia's security services could have carried out the hit in London, so that "attentive to details" Mr. Putin - who was president of Russia at that time - did not know about.

  Mr. Fried also said that Russian behave "increasingly self-confident, to the point of arrogance". These remarks were made just two weeks after Mr. Litvinenko died from polonium-210 poisoning in a London hospital.

The cable told about a meeting between Mr. Fried and Maurice Gourdault-Montagne, senior diplomatic adviser to Jacques Chirac, France's president at the time, took place on December 7, 2006. Their talks in Paris took place against a backdrop of strained US-French relations following Chirac's criticism of the US-led invasion of Iraq.

  The publication is likely to create inconvenience both for Mr. Gourdault-Montagne, France's ambassador in the UK since 2007, and Mr. Fried, whom Barack Obama appointed as his special representative with a mandate to close the prison Guantanamo Bay.

This will also displease the Kremlin and Downing Street. Both are anxious to improve bilateral ties and put the damaging Litvinenko scandal behind them. The British foreign secretary, William Hague, visited Moscow last month.

U.S. Embassy confirmed that bloody Russian nuclear terrorist Putin poisoned refugee in London with polonium 210