The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-10-12
HERE'S MORE ABOUT
WALTER KRIVTTXY

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Counsel Rhs2 whitley asked TIE
questions.
Kr4viisky apparently understood
sufficient English "a understand
the questions. because |. zach
query Was propounded he spoke 10
shub In Russian in . bow voice.
shub then answered in English.
In addition TO destroying 5000
members Of tho officers corps Of
the Red army" Krivitssy said Sta
lin sent 500 900 to 400 900 mem
bers Of the party into exile and
sent millions from the popnla-
ton" to concentration camps.
-since Lenin's death. Stain
has been fighting every form
Of opposition In the country
In laying the groundwork for
his totalitarian Dictatorship
Ne said.
He said this campaign Of
stains reached its climax" In
1886 and 1887. No one, he
said, could remain In the party
and not take scttve part In
the purge.
krivitsky said he was born In
the Western Ukraine, which was
part of Poland until last months
German Russian partition His
name was samnel Ginsberg until
1919, when he took the official,
legal Soviet name" Of Walter Kri-
whisky.
He testified he Joined the
Communist party In 1918. In
1873, he said, he WAS sent TO
Germany ito prepare the
ground for the revolution and
to organize man power for a
German Red army He did
not testify concerning the sue
cess OF that mission.
Among the Soviet posts he held
were Central European chief for
the second and third sections Of
the Soviet military intelligence
service from 1926 to 1888; director
OF the war industries institute in
1888, and chief of the military
intelligence service for Western
Europe" in 1886 and 1887.
Prompted by Whitley. Krivitsky
said that to all intents Russia was
governed by the political bureau
of the communist party's central
committee. Only official position
held by Stain. real dictator. he
added, is that Of general secretary
Of the Russian Communist party.
EIt ufnfEo NBE
International is a union Of
autonomous parties.
1.-THE different communist
parties" he added, "are moth
ing more than branch offices
of the Russian Communist
party"
The first three presidents Of the
Communist International - Vino
view. Bukharin and Molotov-an
were members of the Russian poll
teal bureau at the same time they
held office in the international,
Krivitisky added.
Whitley recalled that Earl
Browder, general secretary OF the
Communist party Of the United
States. had testified that the COM
munist party in this country is
not controlled or dominated In
any way by the Soviet government.
81 take It," Krivitslxy asked
in reply, that Browder says
Stain does not influence the
political courses which he
takes ?"
THAT'S correct" Whitley
replied.
"As i already explained, the
Communist International does
not consist of individual and
autonomous parties capable OF
influencing decisions reached
by other parties" krivitsky
said.
He said that ION paper
Stain and Browder occupy
identical positions In their re-
spective parties, and added
that Browder never had the
slightest influence on internal
or foreign affairs of the Soviet
government"
"Browder," he added, is not re-
sponsible for the purges in Russia
and Browder is not responsible Tor