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Stalin's KIllerati

1988

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In the absence of space for a point-by-point reply to Mr. [Peter Gay], let me cite in addition Pierre Broue's article ''La Main dOeuvre Blanche de Staline'' in Cahiers Leon Trotsky (December 1985); the French police files in the Boris Nikolayevsky collection at the Hoover Institution; ''Les Pourvoyeurs du Goulag'' by P. F. de Villemarest (Geneva, 1978); and ''The Miller Abduction,'' an unpublished paper by [Natalie Grant]. (4) ''About Leonid Eitingon we know relatively little.'' Mr. [Stephen Schwartz] has apparently overlooked a special appendix in our book dedicated to Naum (Leonid) Eitingon. Late in 1940 Eitingon was appointed deputy director of G.R.U. - Intelligence Department of the General Staff - under General Sudoplatov. He was imprisoned before - not after - Stalin's death, tried in 1954 and sentenced to 12 years in labor camp for ''violation of the socialist legality.'' Released, Eitingon came back to Moscow and was employed by Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga (International Book), a book trade company that is basically a K.G.B. front. He is probably dead by now. VITALY RAPOPORT New York Stephen Schwartz replies:

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• Subject: ASSASSINATIONS AND ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATIONS / Eitingon, Leonid / Eitingon, Max / Gay, Peter / RAPOPORT, VITALY / Schwartz, Stephen / STALIN, JOSEPH (1879-1953)