Еще про Литвиненко
В данном случае про нравы в этом отношении "цивилизованных стран" - был такой редкий (кажется - единственный в мировой практике) случай, когда одну из спецслужб как следует потрясла парламентская комиссия. После нескольких скандалов вокруг спецслужб вообще и ЦРУ в частности (Уотергейта и проч.) Комиссия Черча (United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities), которая изучила вопрос. Чтение довольно забавное и очень поучительное.

Church Committee Reports.
Interim Report: Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders

Там, собственно интересна не "клубничка", а сопутствующие детали - вот про Чили, например. "Оранжевые технологии" в деталях и без соплей про "свободу и демократию". Это просто песня. Мучительный вопрос "как нам разобраться с Альенде" проходит сквозной темой, плавно переходя в вопрос "как нам организовать военный переворот" (именно в таких терминах)...

С подробностями, в том числе и финансово-подкупательного толка :)

PS: Но там все песня: вот из вступительного резюме:

The number of Americans and domestic groups caught in the domestic intelligence net is further illustrated by the following statistics:
-- Nearly a quarter of a million first class letters were opened and photographed in the United States by the CIA between 1953-1973, producing a CIA computerized index of nearly one and one-half million names. 13
-- At least 130,000 first class letters were opened and photographed by the FBI between 1940-1966 in eight U.S. cities. 14
-- Some 300,000 individuals were indexed in a CIA computer system and separate files were created on approximately 7,200 Americans and over 100 domestic groups during the course of CIA's Operation CHAOS (1967-1973). 15
-- Millions of private telegrams sent from, to, or through the United States were obtained by the National Security Agency from 1947 to 1975 under a secret arrangement with three United States telegraph companies. 16
-- An estimated 100,000 Americans were the subjects of United States Army intelligence files created between the mid 1960's and 1971. 17
-- Intelligence files on more than 11,000 individuals and groups were created by the Internal Revenue Service between 1969 and 1973 and tax investigations were started on the basis of political rather than tax criteria. 18
-- At least 26,000 individuals were at one point catalogued on an FBI list of persons to be rounded up in the event of a "national emergency".