KRASNOYARSK, Russia, May 26 (UPI) -- A Russian nuclear scientist, missing for the past 18 months, has mysteriously turned up in the Central Russian city of Krasnoyarsk. Sergei Podoinitsyn, who as a scientist at a nuclear facility in the secretive defense industry had access to top secret nuclear information, turned up showing signs of partial amnesia, the Moscow Times reported Thursday. | Uh huh. Right. Sure. Whatever you say. |
Police said he disappeared Oct. 17, 2003, when he left by taxi for Krasnoyarsk with $9,000 to buy a car. He did not return and five days later prosecutors opened an investigation into his disappearance. | 18 months is one hell of a bender, even for a Russian |
There was speculation Podoinitsyn had been kidnapped by foreign agents seeking to obtain nuclear secrets or that he had fled to the United States.| I guess selling his services to the highest bidder never occured to the KGB, huh? |
Police said Podoinitsyn's relatives reported the scientist called his wife and security authorities Saturday to tell them he was alive. | "Honey, I'm home. Did you miss me? Hello? Hello?" |
Podoinitsyn told his family he had worked for a while at a construction site but did not recall how he ended up there. My wife didn't wouldn't buy a story like that. Neither will the guys in the trenchcoats. |
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