`And another quote:  Even more problematic for Litvinenko's elevation to sainthood is the allegation that he was involved in smuggling nuclear materials out of the former Soviet Union. The Independent reports:  ``Alexander Litvinenko, the poisoned former Russian agent, told the Italian academic he met on the day he fell ill that he had organized the smuggling of nuclear material out of Russia for his security service employers.``  According to the British newspaper, Litvinenko admitted to Scaramella that he had ``masterminded the smuggling of radioactive material to Zurich in 2000.``  `