Leon
Trotsky: Letter to Albert Goldman
July
17, 1940
[Writing
of Leon Trotsky, Vol. 14, New York 1979, p. 863, title: “The
GPU and the Comintern”]
Dear
Friend:
The
archives are leaving [for Harvard] this morning on the train. We are
informing Mr. Metcalf likewise about the matter.
The
deposition of Joseph Zack would be of tremendous importance. Please
arrange it in the form of an affidavit. It is necessary that in the
text of this document, Joseph Zack present himself as a former
prominent member of the Comintern and so on.
My
thesis is that all the most intimate functions of the Comintern have
passed during the last period into the hands of the GPU. Can Joseph
Zack say anything on this particular point from his own experiences?
Would
it not be possible to obtain a similar affidavit from Benjamin
Gitlow? from Krivitsky? from Eugene Lyons?
During
the years 1929-30-31 the Comintern published financial accounts in
which subventions to the Comintern press played an important role. We
have here this account for the three years mentioned above. Would it
be possible to obtain copies of such accounts published for later
years? Is there any information available about the financial
beginning of the New
Masses?
Warmest
greetings,
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