A Bersa Model 62 pistol covered in blood and gore was found beneath the body of Argentinian federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman in the early morning of January 19th, 2015. Just hours after his body was found in the bathroom of his apartment, Nisman was scheduled to testify before Congress that a years-long investigation by his office had determined that President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s administration had intentionally covered up Iranian government involvement in the 1994 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires which killed 85 people and wounded hundreds more. Nisman was an ambitious and driven young prosecutor when he took on the investigation into the aftermath of the AMIA bombing in 1998. It would become his singular focus for the next seventeen years. He worked closely with a senior counterintelligence officer named Jaime Stiuso to establish extradition requests known as Red Notices through Interpol for five Iranian suspects in an effort to bring them to justice. He also managed to stay in the public eye with a series of interviews and media appearances throughout the investigation. He kept attention on the bombing and galvanized the public’s desire for the truth, and the formal complaint he lodged against Kirchner’s administration, which alleged they’d attempted to have the Interpol Red Notices lifted, stunned the entire nation. Was his death a professional hit intended to silence him to the benefit of powerful officials in Argentina or elsewhere? Or did Nisman take his own life after realizing that, on the eve of what should have been his greatest lifelong professional triumph, the evidence did not support claims he’d made in public, and he was on the verge of destroying his own reputation and career? For episode 80 of the Spycraft 101 podcast I discussed the life and death of Alberto Nisman with Justin Webster, director of the Netflix documentary series “Nisman: The Prosecutor, the President, and the Spy.” The episode is available now. #argentina #nisman #kirchner #prosecutor #mystery open.spotify.com/episode/2Eu…