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“the next attack will most likely be bombs”: Hansen to Dobbs, July 31, 1940, TC 24:12.
“permanent threat of a new ‘blitzkrieg’ assault”: Trotsky to Mr. Kay, August 3, 1940, TC 11:44; Craig II, 670–71.
“in the next attack the GPU will use other methods”: Hansen, “With Trotsky to the End,” in Leon Trotsky, 22.
Jacson had met Trotsky for the first time: “Memorandum of talk with Rosmers
about Frank Jacson, August 23, 1940, TC 24:6; Rosmers, We never saw Jacson’ in Paris,” TC 24:6; Henry Schultz statement, September 10, 1940, TC 24:7 [hereafter: HS]; Hansen, “With Trotsky to the End,” in Leon Trotsky, 17.
Marguerite Rosmer was very close to Natalia: Van, 146.
Jacson entered the patio on May 28, at 7:58 a.m.: Levine, 93–94.
Trotsky surprised everyone: Joes notes on Trotsky, Hansen papers, 40:7.
Natalia wondered about this: Levine, 94.
Natalia was returned to the house: Levine 94.
he was introduced to Dorothy Schultz: Dorothy Schultz undated statement, TC 24:7 [hereafter: DS].
question him about his name, which did not seem French: HS.
came by the apartment at least a dozen times…he was close to the Trotskyist circle in Paris: DS, HS.
One of the casualties was Mark Zborowski: Sara Weber to Trotsky, July 16, 1940, TEP 5916.
Jacsons bragging tales…Jacson was introduced to Cannon and Dobbs…Jacson bought Natalia a gift of sour cream…dinner at the Hotel Geneva…difficult to pin him down: DS, HS.
that relatively harmless creature: Mosley, 79.
Jacson’s conversations with Dorothy: DS.
his Buick, which he arranged to leave at the house: HS; Hansen, “With Trotsky to the End,” in Leon Trotsky, 24; Levine, 101–2.
Mercader-Jacson went to New York: FBI, 1:109, 2:46; telegrams sent between Sylvia and Jac, November 1939 to July 1940, TC 24:5.
surprised to with Hilda and Ruth Ageloff,” August 24, 1940, TC 24:2.
he phoned Evelyn…a diamond-cutting syndicate: DS.
he came by the house at 2:40: Levine 104.
She grew impatient, and then desperate: Sylvia to Jac, July 29, 1940, in FBI, 5:42.
very ill in a small town near Puebla: “Memorandum of talk with Hilda and Ruth Ageloff,” August 24, 1940, TC 24:2.
an expensive box of chocolates: Hansen, With Trotsky to the End, in Leon Trotsky, 24.
“Everything is in order”: Ocherki, 102.
he had not dropped in on the headquarters of the Socialist Workers Party: Hansen, “With Trotsky to the End,” in Leon Trotsky, 23.
a separate Workers Party: Cannon and Dobbs to Trotsky, April 13, 1940, TEP 801.
Burnham’s astonishingly candid resignation letter: May 21, 1940, TEP 13826.
a petty-bourgeois fraud: Hansen to Reba Hansen, July 21, 1940, Hansen papers, 19:4.
an event arranged by Professor Hubert Herring: Herring to Trotsky, July 15, 1940, TEP 1977.
Charles Orr: Charles A. Orr, “Trotsky comme je l’ai vu à Mexico,” Cahiers Léon Trotsky, No. 51, October 1993.
“The OM ripped into the democracies”: Hansen to Reba Hansen, July 21, 1940, Hansen papers, 19:4.
a formal debate with the guards: Hansen to Reba Hansen, July 24, 1940, Hansen papers, 19:4.
Sylvia Ageloff, who flew in from New York: FBI, 1:114, 117–18.
the discussion centered on the Majority and Minority views: Levine, 112.
he barely said a word: Natalia, 265.
he certainly didnt act like his old dynamic self: Hansen to Dobbs, August 11, 1940, TC 24:13; Hansen to Reba Hansen, August 9, 1940, Hansen papers, 19:4; Hansen, “With Trotsky to the End,” in Leon Trotsky, 17.
an hourlong siesta after lunch…“It bores him stiff”: Hansen to Reba Hansen, June 24, 1940, Hansen papers, 19:4.
“I will do everything to observe this new ‘deadline’”: Trotsky to Malamuth, March 19, 1940, TEP 8984.
Trotsky accused the monthly Futuro…mobilizing Goldman in New York: Hansen to Goldman, June 28, 1940, TC 24:11; Trotsky to Goldman, July 3, 1940, TC 10:70; Writings, 12:305–15; Trotsky, “The Comintern and the GPU.”
the preliminary hearing on July 2: Robins to Rose Karsner, July 2, 1940, TC 24:10.
“working like a steam engine”: Hansen to Reba Hansen, June 11, 1940, Hansen papers, 19:4.
“It is imperative not to lose a single hour”: Trotsky to Goldman, July 3, 1940, TC, 10:70.
His blood pressure was running extremely high. His lower back was giving him trouble: Hansen to Dobbs, July 31, 1940, TC 24:12.
a deposition asserting that Siqueiros was a Trotskyist: Trotsky, “The Comintern and the GPU” Trotsky to Curtiss, August 2, 1940, TEP 7639.
On August 6 Trotsky held a press conference: Hansen to Dobbs, August 6, 1940, TC 24:13 Writins 12:330.
Another head of the Stalinist hydra: Mosley, 124.
“Indignation, anger, revulsion?”: Trotsky to Angelica Balabanoff, Deutscher III, 295
“We await the new intrigue calmly”: Trotsky, “The Comintern and the GPU.”
The picnic on August 9: Hansen to Reba Hansen, August 9, 1940, Hansen papers, 19:4.
he liked to joke to Natalia: Nataia, How It Happene, in Leon Trotsy, 35.
“My death…may lighten Seryozha’s situation”…her husband grieving in his study: Natalia to Sara Weber, September 25, 1941, TC 26:32.
a private moment between father and Son, in Leon Trotsky, 40.
he slid down low in the seat…“we must have two of the best drivers in the car”: Hansen, “With Trotsky to the End,” in Leon Trotsky, 23.
The guard now numbered seven: Robins to Comrade [Dobbs], July 12, 1940, TC 24:12.
Natalia…was now pushing for a threefold guard: Hansen to Dobbs, July 31, 1940, TC 24:12.
a Sioux Indian known as the Rainman: Dobbs, Teamster Rebellion, 120, 155; Teamster Power, 125; Teamster Politics, 141–43.
“sufficient experience, prestige, and authority”: Dobbs to Hansen, July 26, 1940, TC 24:12; Schultz to Dobbs, July 30, 1940, TC 24:12.
Trotsky doubted the value of the Rainman coming down: Hansen to Dobbs, July 31, 1940, TC 24:12.
Trotsky’s reaction annoyed the comrades: Dobbs to Rainbolt, August 9, 1940, TC 24:13; Dobbs to Hansen, August 13, 1940, TC 24:13.
Trotsky was not always the most cooperative subject to guard…the indignity of a personal search: Hansen, “With Trotsky to the End,” in Leon Trotsky, 20.
Robins proposed that Trotsky always be accompanied: Robins memoir, TC 30:1.
a bulletproof vest and a siren: Trotsky to Charles Curtiss, August 16, 1940, TEP 7640.
room 113 of the Hotel Montejo: FBI, 1:114; Levine, 115–16.
Sylvia was troubled by the changes she observed in Ramón’s health: Sylvia to Hilda Ageloff, August 16, 1940, TC 24:12.
Jacson’s haggard appearance and nervous twitching: Hansen, “With Trotsky to the End,” in Leon Trotsky, 20.
Van sent a telegram: Feferman, 195.
his accent was not quite French…infatuated with Jacson: Van, 146–47; Feferman, 192–93; Walta Karsner statement, August 21, 1940, TC 24:4; statement of the secretary of the Belgian Legation, in Excelsior, August 28, 1940, copy in TC 24:1.
“It would be really too cruel”: Trotsky to Van, August 2, 1940, TEP 10706.
On August 17 at 4:35 p.m.: Levine, 114–15.
his broad shoulders slightly stooped: Levine, 161.
“his clothes flop on him like a scarecrow”: Sylvia to Hilda Ageloff, August 16, 1940, TC 24:2.
six feet in his shoes: Robins memoir, TC 30:1.
souvenir slugs from the Siqueiros raid: Dugrand, 50; Hansen to Dave Hansen, July 21, 1940, Hansen papers, 17:9; Levine, 124.
The entire visit took only eleven minutes: Levine 114.
“I don’t like him”: Natalia, “How It Happened,” in Leon Trotsky, 38.
dark clouds gathered in clusters: Levine, 115; Hansen, “With Trotsky to the End,”
in Leon Trotsky, 24.
He told Natalia he felt well: Natalia, “How It Happened,” in Leon Trotsky, 38.
a telegram from Al Goldman in New York: TEP 1581.
“Disloyalty is always bad”: Trotsky to Goldman, August 17, 1940, TEP 8340.
“a difference in comfort between various cars in a railway train”: Writings, 12:221.
“civil liberties and other good things in America”: Trotsky to Friends, August 13, 1940, TEP 7570.
an American brand of militarism: Hansen to Dobbs, August 6, 1940, TC 24:13.
“very pretentious, very muddled, and stupid”: Writings, 12:341, 410–18.
Trotsky’s Mexican attorney: Natalia, “How It Happened,” in Leon Trotsky, 38.
punctuating the end of each sentence: “Tochka!”: Hansen, “With Trotsky to the End,” in Leon Trotsky, 24.
two congratulatory letters to comrades in Minneapolis: TEP 10971, 10529.
The last letter of the day: Trotsky to Schultz, August 20, 1940, TC 12:9.
Hansen was on the roof near the blockhouse: account of the murder drawn from Hansen, “With Trotsky to the End,” in Leon Trotsky, 16–26; Natalia, “How It Happened,” in Leon Trotsky, 35–39; Natalia, 266–70; for French-language original of Natalia’s account: Victor Serge, Vie et Mort de Trotsky (Amiot Dumont, 1951); Levine, 111–32; Salazar, 140–42; Hansen, “On the 23rd Anniversary of the Russian Revolution,” undated manuscript, Hansen papers, 40:26.
wet grass made their bellies swell: Salazar, 135.
Caridad Mercader and Leonid Eitingon: Sudoplatov, 78; Levine, 120, 131.
Look, we found a barber: Natalia to Sara Weber, January 8, 1952, IC 26:31.
The doctors trepanned an area of the right parietal bone: Salazar, 103.
The direction of the pickax: Salazar, 135.
The first medical bulletin: medical reports and press releases are in TC 23:13.
the patient’s chances were one in ten: The New York Times, August 21, 1940.
She sat beside him, dressed in a white hospital gown: The New York Times, August 21, 1940.
She was waiting for him to wake up: Natalia to Sara Weber, September 25, 1941, TC 26:32.
Colonel Salazar arrived to question Mercader: Salazar, 125–37.
the police found a dagger: Salazar, 105.
letter of confession: TC 24:5; Salazar, 128–31.
“It was a veritable maze”: Salazar, 142.
Mercader’s account of the details of his crime: Excelsior, August 26, 1940, copy in TC 24:5.
she rushed over to the house: “Declaration of Sylvia Ageloff,” Excelsior, August 27, 1940, copy in TC 24:2; Salazar, 143–44.
“Kill him! Kill him!”: Levine, 130–31.
“the flickering life of our Old Man”: TC 24:14.
Van was out taking a walk: Van, 147.
Trotsky’s breathing had become more rapid: Natalia, “How It Happened,” in Leon Trotsky, 39.
“Gentlemen! Trotsky is dead!”: Salazar, 108.
pressed her face against the soles of her husband’s feet…“Everything is finished”: Natalia to Sara Weber, September 25, 1941, TC 26:32.
Epilogue: Shipwreck
Natalia was increasingly skeptical…the Korean War: Natalia to the Executive Committee of the Fourth International, May 9, 1951, TC 26:13; The New York Times, June 8, 1951.
“neo-Trotskyist deviation”: Time, April 10, 1964.
Natalia addressed a letter to the Soviet government: TC 26:30.
Soviet intelligence hatched an escape plan for Mercader: Salazar, 216–29; Sudoplatov, Raznye dni tainoi voiny i diplomatii, 1941 god (Olma-Press, 2001), 141–42; Kolpakidi, 170–85; Venona, 279; Ocherki, 106.
Caridad seems to have lost her bearings: Levine, 215–22.
private Kremlin ceremony on June 17, 1941: Sudoplatov, Raznye dni, 141–42; Nikandrov, 134.
Ramón’s recognition would have to wait: Sudoplatov, Raznye dni, 141.
his true identity was discovered in 1950: Salazar, 231–35; Levine, 187–214.
Ramón never forgave her: Nikandrov, 133.
Hero of the Soviet Union, the Order of Lenin, and the Gold Star medal: Kolpakidi, 12.
Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo became ardent supporters of Stalin’s USSR: Herrera, 249, 341–42.
a small bust of Stalin: Van, 160.
Frida’s funeral: Herrera, 436.
Colonel Salazar finally caught up with the fugitive painter: Salazar, 184–201.
At the trial, Siqueiros spoke passionately…moving to Chile: Stein, 121–30.
massive interior mural: Rochfort, 199, 207–11.
National Art Prize…hero’s burial: The New York Times, January 7, 1974.
a team of FBI agents and U.S. marshals: Dobbs, Teamster Bureaucracy, 137, 145, 169–283; Myers, The Prophet’s Army, 177–88.
Slvia Caldwell: Venona Secrets, 359–61.
the law also caught up with Mark Zborowski: Poretsky, 271–74; Venona, 257–58; Venona Secrets, 368–74.
Alexander Orlov…surfaced in New York: Deadly Illusions, 339–48.
The FBI assumed…“Trotskyist invention”: Deadly Illusions, 290.
Krivitsky…was found dead: Kern, A Death in Washington.
U.S. Senate’s Internal Security Subcommittee: Legacy, 15–31.
Zborowski skillfully ducked and weaved: Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States: Hearing before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate, Eighty-Fourth Congress, Second Session (United States Government Printing Office, 1956), 77–101, 103–35.
Zborowski appeared in court to testify…Zborowski was convicted: The New York Times, November 6, 1956; April 22 and 26, 1958; December 14, 1962.
Van had been out of the Trotskyist movement: Feferman, 215–18.
Max Eastman and Sidney Hook: Wald, 271–74, 290–94.
Max Shachtman: Peter Drucker, Max Shachtman and His Left: A Socialist’s Odyssey Through the “American Century” (Humanities Press, 1994), 218–311.
James Burnham…The Managerial Revolution: Kelly, 97.
Burnham fell out with Cold War liberals…National Review: Kelly, 183–237.
President Reagan famously declared…Presidential Medal of Freedom: http:// www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches; Kelly, 365.
Trotskyist sects endured: Wald, 295–310.
Columbia University…Yulia Akselrod…Seryozha was shot: Yulia Akselrod, “Why My Grandfather Leon Trotsky Must Be Turning in His Grave,” Commentary, April 1989.
Van met a violent end: Feferman, 361–62.
from Gorbachev’s point of view, there was no room for Trotsky: The New York Times, November 8, 1987.
the Soviet government granted Seva a visa…“people from a shipwreck”: “Trotsky’s Grandson in Moscow,” Workers Vanguard, March 31, 1989, available online at http://www.ucc.ie/acad/appsoc/tmp_store/mia_2/Library/history/ etol/document/family/volkov.htm.
Albert Glotzer…“simply bullshit”: Glotzer to Bellow, August 30, 1991, Glotzer papers, box 48; on Bellow, see Wald, 246–47.
“Trotsky was lying dead with a bloody turban of bandages”: Bellow to Glotzer, August 7, 1990, Glotzer papers, box 48; Saul Bellow, “Writers, Intellectuals, Politics,” The National Interest, Spring 1993.
“The Soviet Union will live and develop”…“Optimism was all he really had”: Glotzer, 314.
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Abel, Lionel, 153
Abraham Lincoln Battalion, 122–23
Abstract Expressionism, 247
Administration for Special Tasks, 174
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Ageloff, Hilda, 279
Ageloff, Ruth, 207, 228
Ageloff, Sylvia, 205–7, 228–29, 244–45, 266–67, 270–71, 273, 279–81, 284–85, 290–91
agrarian reform, 18
Akselrod, Yulia (granddaughter), 302
Almazán, Juan, 263
American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky, 15, 17–18, 20–21, 35–40, 50, 153
American Jewish Committee, 299
American Trotskyists, 154, 203, 241, 304–5. See also American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky; Socialist Workers Party; and specific individuals
background of, and split over “Russian question” and dialectical materialism, 207–11, 216–29, 270
merger with Socialist Party, 17
Minneapolis branch, 135–38, 226–28, 277–78
Rivera frescoes at NY headquarters of, 85
tenth anniversary of October Revolution and, 207–8
Trotsky asylum and security in Mexico and, 10–11, 14–17, 31, 121, 125–27, 134, 135, 242
L’Amour fou, (Breton), 159
anarchists, 123, 144
Andreas, Evelyn, 267–71, 283
anti-Communism, 301
anti-Semitism, 25–26
anti-Stalinist left, 148, 152–59
anti-Trotsky protests, 3, 19–20, 250–51
Archangel, British and French occupation of, 22
Arenal, Leopoldo, 250, 253, 259–60, 265
Arenal, Luís, 248, 250, 252, 259–60
art and politics, 64–65, 82, 149–52, 157–58, 161–62, 165, 168. See also specific artists
“Art and Politics in Our Epoch” (Trotsky), 157–58
Artists in Uniform (Eastman), 150
Associated Press, 94
Austria, 22
Nazi occupation (Anschluss), 177, 202–3
authoritarianism, 301. See also centralism
automobile strikes of 1937, 241
Avenida Viena house, 172–73, 195
NKVD attack on, 250, 252–55
purchased by Mexican government as Leon Trotsky Museum, 293, 295–96
security at, 237–44, 255–58, 262–66, 278–79
Axelrod, Pavel, 214, 217