Evening star., 1941-02-12
Krivitsky
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Krivitsky she went to a hotel be-
cause she was tired and did not
wish TO visit friends she might have
stopped with here. She bathed,
she said, and went to the moving
picture, philadelphia Story" re-
turning to the hotel afterward.
The next morning she visited au-
tomobile agencies to learn If she
could find suitable pick up" truck,
did some shopping and that night
went to the International House,
where she had friends.
She said Krivitskys evident en-
thusiaSm about his future life in
Virginia had a curious contradiction
when he said as they parted, Please,
look after my wife and child if any
thing happens TO me-"
Mr.. Dobert said he saw Krivitsky
in New York City last week and the
former spy expressed a desire to
retire from politics" and to take
his wife and child to a Virginia
farm. The KrivitSkys, he said. were
considering an invitation to live on
the farm with the DobertS and their
2l2-year-old son.
While in New York, Mr.. Dobert
said, Gen. Krivitsky asked him if he
was not afraid to leave his wife
and young son alone in the Vir-
ginia mountains.
He replied that he was not, he
said, since his wife had a gun for
protection.
Told Law Was Less Strict.
Don't you need a special police
permit to get gun in Virginia?'
KrivitSky was quoted as asking. He
was told the law was not as strict
in Virginia as New York, it was
said
One of the points made by Mr..
Waldman was that KrivitSky would
scarcely have gone all the way to
Virginia to obtain a gun with which
to destroy himself. Washington au-
thorities are convinced KrivitSky
killed himself with the gun pur-
chased in Charlottesville.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald,
however, continued to withhold a
suicide certificate today pending
completion of a full investigation.
Albert Goldman, attorney for Leon
Trotsky, exiled Bolshevist leader
who was bludgeoned to death in
Mexico City last year, disclosed in
Chicago that he and associates had
been negotiating with krivitSky for
q Mexico investigation and ex-
pressed the view that that might
have been a factor in what, accord
ing to my opinion, was the assassi-
nation of Krivitsky'
Isaac Don Levine, who collaborated
in series of Saturday Evening Post
articles for which KrivitSky is re-
ported to have received S25 900. said
at West Palm Beach that he knew
no reason why Krivitsky should have
taken his life, but that he knew
from Krivitskys last message to
me, transmitted from Canada some
three months ago. that he was ter
ribly upset by the assassination of
4IOCohS.
Dies Issues Statement.
And Chairman Dies of the House
Committee Investigating Un-Amer-
lean Activities, which heard Krivit-
sky's account of international Com
munist activities in 1899. issued
statement that "the question of
murder or suicide in the case of
Gen. Krivitsky" was "for the Dis
trict authorities to determine after
thorough investigation of all the
facts"
But am prepared to state"
he added. that our committee is
in possession of the fullest in
formation on the methods of assas-
sination employed by Stalin's agents,
and that these methods were de-
scribed to us by none other than
Gen. Krivitsky himself.
Both TrotSky and Krivitsky
were convinced that they would
meet violent deaths at the instiga-