Leon
Trotsky: Assassins May Use "Trotskyist" Label
August
6, 1940
[Writings
of Leon Trotsky, Vol 12, 1939-1940, New York ²1973,
p. 330]
The
object of my invitation to the press is to point out to the press the
new myth that the GPU is concocting in Mexico. It will appear that
the GPU desires to convince humanity that David Alfaro Siqueiros is
my agent. And that by my initiative he organized the assault! What
preoccupies me most is the attempt of the GPU to revive the theory of
self-assault, a thing which is very difficult since the body of
Robert Sheldon Harte has been found and since the confessions of
those arrested.
But
the GPU has in its hands Siqueiros and, through the lawyer Pavon
Flores, acting as intermediary, they have hold of David Serrano.
Serrano was six years in Moscow, from where he was sent to Spain, and
nobody goes out of Russia without the authorization of the GPU.
Serrano participated in Spain as an agent of the GPU and came as a
high agent of that body to Mexico. That is the reason why he entered
the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Mexican
Communist Party. …
It
is very important for these gentlemen to throw all the blame on
Siqueiros and for them to say that everything was organized by him.
Will
not the GPU demand of Siqueiros, under pain of death, that tomorrow
he declare himself to have been secretly a Trotskyist? Will not
Siqueiros declare that he killed Bob Harte in the course of a
"self-assault" (i.e., a staged affair)? Will not David
Serrano confess that he has been simply an agent of the Dies
Committee for the organization of political assassinations? Isn't El
Popular
already preparing an editorial article on the same theme? We know in
advance its style of patriotic indignation! Well, let them try it!
Moscow has had for a long time its classical system for affairs of
this kind. We await with serenity the new intrigue. We shall help the
investigation to discover the logic of this masquerade.
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