00:00In 1921, the Soviet secret police built a laboratory with one purpose – to find the
00:05perfect way to kill someone and make it look like nothing happened.
00:08They called it Laboratory Number One.
00:11Internally, they called it the Chamber.
00:12The scientists inside weren't working with animals, they were working with people.
00:16Prisoners already condemned to death were brought in, given experimental compounds,
00:21and observed as they died.
00:22Scientists stood nearby taking notes.
00:24The goal was precise – create a poison that left no trace.
00:28No smell, no color, nothing a doctor could find at autopsy.
00:32They succeeded.
00:33Defector Pavel Sudoplatov later confirmed what happened inside those walls.
00:37The techniques developed there were never abandoned.
00:40They were refined, passed down, and used again and again.
00:43Alexander Litvinenko poisoned with polonium in 2006.
00:47The Skripples hit with Novichok in 2018.
00:50Different decades, different victims, same unbroken line back to that one facility.
00:55The Soviet Union collapsed.
00:56The Chamber never did.
00:58Some programs outlived the governments that created them.
