Were Brits Involved in Rasputin's Murder?

n 2004, BBC aired the documentary, ‘Who killed Rasputin? The British plot', claiming the whole murder plot was devised by the British MI6 intelligence office, and that it was the British officer Oswald Rayner who fired the final shot to the head. Or was it?

Why is the British account questionable?

Because it's based solely on memoirs and testimonials of the British people – first of all, Sir George Buchanan, British Ambassador to the Russian Empire in 1910-1917. Newspaper reporter Michael Smith wrote that British Secret Intelligence Bureau head Mansfield Cumming ordered three of his agents in Russia to eliminate Rasputin in December 1916.