FOUND SHOT DEAD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 February 1941, Page 5

FOUND SHOT DEAD

RUSSIAN WHO CLAIMED TO BE GENERAL AND FORMER ESPIONAGE CHIEF. CORONER RETURNS VERDICT OF SUICIDE. (By Telegraph—Press Associutfon—Copyright * WASHINGTON, February 10. The body of a man believed to be General Walter Krivitsky, who purported to be a former Soviet espionage chief and was the author of articles on the internal workings of the Kremlin. was found shot dead in an hotel bedroom. The coroner issued a certificate of suicide under the name of Walter Poref, alias Samuel Ginsberg. However, Krivitsky's lawyer. Mr. Louis Waldman., stated that it was certain that the dead man was Krivitsky and that he had been murdered. Th(‘ body was also identified as Krivitsky’s by d special investigator of the Dies Committee. Two notes’were found near the body in a locked bedroom, one in English requesting Mr. Waldman to arrange fur the welfare of the man’s family and the other in Russian, which was of an autobiographical nature, Mr Boris Snub. Krivitsky's interpreter. issued a statement m New York that he was convinced that Krivitsky had been murdered by agents of the, Soviet Union.