The Assassins Gallery - [Dr Mikhal Lammeck 01]
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IN THE LAST PARAGRAPH of Mike Reilly’s book, Reilly of the White House, [Simon & Schuster, New York, 1947.] he states:
I walked into the kitchen to collect the remnants of FDR’s breakfast and took them to a [Georgia Warm Springs] Foundation chemist to be analyzed.* He found nothing, but a Secret Service man must check all credentials. Even Death’s.
* Author’s note: No copy of this chemist’s report has ever been found.
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SOVIET FOREIGN MINISTER V. M. Molotov, heading the Soviet delegation to the inaugural meeting of the United Nations held in San Francisco in April 1945, stopped in Washington, D.C., to acquaint himself with the new American President, Harry S. Truman.
During a meeting in the Oval Office, Truman upbraided the Russian minister, specifically over the Soviets’ failure in Eastern Europe to abide by the terms of the Atlantic Charter guaranteeing liberated nations freedom from fear and representative government of their own choosing.
Put on the defensive, Molotov complained, “I have never been talked to like that in my life.”
Truman replied, “Carry out your agreements, and you won’t get talked to like that.”
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WALTER KRIVITSKY, BORN IN Russia in 1899, became a Soviet Intelligence officer. In 1923 he was sent to Germany in an attempt to start a Communist revolution. In 1933, he was transferred to Holland as Chief of Soviet Military Intelligence for Western Europe.
In 1936, Stalin began purging his government of officials whose loyalty he suspected or whose power he feared. Concerned for his life, Krivitsky defected to Canada in 1937, where he lived under the name of Walter Thomas. In 1939, Krivitsky gave the FBI details of sixty-one Soviet agents working in Britain, among them the Soviet moles Kim Philby and Donald Maclean. The British intelligence service, MI5, was not convinced by Krivitsky’s testimony, and his leads were not followed up.
Krivitsky settled in the United States and wrote his memoir, entitled I Was Stalin’s Agent. A repentant and fervid anticommunist, he testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
On the 10th of February, 1941, Walter Krivitsky was found shot to death in the Bellevue Hotel, in Washington, D.C. Initially, it was reported that he’d committed suicide. However, it has long been speculated that his hiding place was uncovered by a Soviet mole working for MI5, and he was murdered by Soviet agents. Krivitsky’s death remains a mystery.
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THE NAZI BOAST THAT the Czech town of Lidice had been erased from the map has been proven false. Several towns around the world have renamed themselves “Lidice” to commemorate the massacre staged by the Nazis in retaliation for the assassination of Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich.
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THE CZECH PARACHUTIST KAREL Čurda, who betrayed to the Gestapo his fellow SOE operatives including Josef Gabčik and Jan Kubiš, was hanged in Prague on April 29, 1947.