By Susan King Los Angeles Times HOLLYWOOD -- As he lay dying in London’s University College Hospital in November 2006, exiled former KGB and FSB agent Alexander “Sasha” Litvinenko was being filmed by documentarian Andrei Nekrasov. He told Nekrasov: “If anything should happen to me, I beg you to show this tape to the whole world.” Nekrasov kept the promise he made to his friend, who died three weeks after falling ill from what was later discovered to be radiation poisoning from a lethal dose of Polonium-210 in his tea, believed to have been slipped in during a meeting with two of his former FSB (Russia’s modern-day secret police) colleagues. Nekrasov’s startling documentary, “Poisoned by Polonium: The Litvinenko File,” opens Friday in Hollywood. “When Alexander was alive, he wasn’t really famous,” says Nekrasov. “He was kind...
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