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The poisoning of Mr. White (Jesper Christensen) has been alleged to have been inspired by the real-life poisoning in England of Russian ex-K.G.B. agent Alexander Litvinenko who, according to Wikipedia, "was a former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service (F.S.B.) and K.G.B., who fled from court prosecution in Russia, and received political asylum in the United Kingdom. According to his wife and father, he was working for MI6 and MI5 after receiving the asylum. Upon his arrival in London, he continued to support the Russian oligarch in exile, Boris Berezovsky, in his media campaign against the Russian government. In the U.K., Litvinenko became a journalist for a Chechen separatist site, Chechenpress. Litvinenko wrote two books, 'Blowing up Russia: Terror from Within' and 'Lubyanka Criminal Group', where he accused the Russian secret services of staging Russian apartment bombings and other terrorist acts to bring Vladimir Putin to power. On November 1, 2006, Litvinenko suddenly fell ill and was hospitalized. He died three weeks later, becoming the first confirmed victim of lethal polonium-210-induced acute radiation syndrome. Litvinenko's allegations about the misdeeds of the F.S.B. and his public deathbed accusations that Putin was behind his unusual malady, resulted in worldwide media coverage. Subsequent investigations by British authorities into the circumstances of Litvinenko's death, led to serious diplomatic difficulties between the British and Russian governments."

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