“KRIVITSKY” DEAD
Associates Claim Murder, Coroner Says Suicide
(Received February 11, U.K) p.m.)
WASHINGTON, February 10.
The body of a man believed to lie General Walter Krivitsky, who purported to be a former Soviet espionage chief and was the author of articles on the internal workings of the Kremlin, was found shot dead in a hotel bedroom. The coroner issued a certificate of suicide under the name of Walter Poref, alias Samuel Ginsberg. However, Krivitsky’s lawyer, Mr. Louis Waldman, stated that it was certain that the dead man was Krivitsky and that he had been murdered. The body was also identified as Krivitsky’s by a sjtecial investigator of the Dies Committee.
Two notes were found near the body in a locked bedroom, one in English requesting Mr. Waldman to arrange for the welfare of the man’s family and the other in Russian, which was of an autobiographical nature. M. Boris Sliub, Krivitsky’s interpreter, issued a statement, in New York that he was convinced that Krivitsky had been murdered by agents of the Soviet Union.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 118, 12 February 1941, Page 8
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