BRITISH END RELATIONS WITH RUMANIA; PREPARE TO BLOCK NAZI BALKAN MOVE (2/11/41)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, McHenry Library, U.C. Santa Cruz | 2/11/41 | Robert P. Post, C.L. Sulzberger

[CougarGA7]

Absolutely fascinating. Maybe once I get a few items off my list I will delve into this further. Thanks Larry.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The headline that grabbed my attention is the one that read, "Gen. Krivitsky Found Dead."

You're not the only one, Fiji. Since there was so much interest in this story I figured I had better get . . . the rest of the story.

General Krivitsky conspiracy club ping.

[Fiji Hill]

Did they actually prove that he was assassinated? This looks like an interesting story.

Despite all of the disclosures since the fall of the Soviet Union, this mystery remains unsolved.

[iowamark]

Former communist Whittaker Chambers, at Time magazine since early 1939, befriended Krivitsky, with whom he conversed in German. Krivitsky's wife and son stayed with Chambers' family for several months.

Chambers had made a detailed confession of his espionage work to Adolf Berle in September 1939 and was astounded when nothing at all happened of it. Nobody contacted him to follow up. He became deeply suspicious of the entire FDR administration. The fact that nobody was interested in in investigating Krivitsky's death deepened this suspicion.

The FBI finally contacted Chambers once in 1942 and several times in 1945-6, after other defectors and Venona decrypts corroborated his information, but he only gave very guarded replies until 1948.

See Whittaker Chambers' 1952 autobiography "Witness" and the Berle memo.