Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR STALIN AS POLICE SPY In his reply to Isaac Don Levine's "Stalin as Police Spy" (NL, October 1), Gregory Aronson writes: "I wonder why Levine ignored M. Moskalev's book, The Russian...
...The few who did survive—like General Gerasimov, former head of the St...
...The reason former heads of the St...
...The book does not once mention the existence of a Yeniseisk Ohhrana section...
...Almost twenty years ago I became convinced that Stalin had been, at least sinre 1906, in some manner connected with the Tsarist police...
...Levine was supposedly written by the St...
...The document made public by Mr...
...Without entering into prolonged discussion of the authenticity of the document, I should like to point out that on page 153 of the aforementioned Moskalev book we read: "Gendarme Captain Zhelezniakov journeyed to make a special report to the Yeniseisk Governor [Kraft] to receive additional instructions for the prevention of the [rumoredl escapes by Stalin and Sverdlov...
...Whatever additional materials I have collected since that time have only strengthened my conviction...
...If Captain Zhelezniakov had to travel to Krasnoyarsk, where could he have been stationed, if not in Yeniseisk...
...Petersburg Police Department to the head of the Yeniseisk Okhrana section...
...I should like to add that since 1928 I have been gathering all sorts of material for an extensive biography of Stalin...
...refused to divulge any of the Okhrana's secrets...
...Petersburg Okhrana, who esraped abroad...
...The Yeniseisk Governor resided in the capital of the Yeniseisk region, that is, in Krasnoyarsk...
...If his rank was such that he reported directly to the Governor of the province and not to the local gendarme administration, it is at least plausible that his position was that of head of the Yeniseisk Okhrana section...
...The role of a number of them remains a secret to this very day...
...If the Yeniseisk document is a forgery, in my opinion it was reproduced from memory by a person or persons who had seen such an official document in the Okhrana archives...
...Therefore, if there was no such section, the document is not valid...
...Petersburg Police Department never exposed Stalin was that most of them (including Makarov, Vissarionov and Beletsky, mentioned by Aronson) were executed soon after the Bolsheviks took power...
...DEAR EDITOR STALIN AS POLICE SPY In his reply to Isaac Don Levine's "Stalin as Police Spy" (NL, October 1), Gregory Aronson writes: "I wonder why Levine ignored M. Moskalev's book, The Russian Bureau of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party, 1912-1917 (Moscow, 1947), in which pages 149 to 160 are devoted to various administrative and police organs in Yeniseisk at the time of Stalin's last exile...
...There is, indeed, a mass of circumstantial evidence:—not all included in Mr...
...New York City David Shub...
...I have devoted a great part of that time to studying Stalin's pre-Revolutionary activities...
...In Boris I. Nicolaevsky's Russian-language book on the agent provocateur Azeff, published in Berlin in 1932, we read on page 206: "According to Gerasimov . . . not all of the principal agents who worked under him were later exposed...
...So much for Moskalev's book...
...That was many years before the alleged Yeniseisk Okhrana document reached this country...
...Le-vine's brief book—to support the belief that Stalin cooperated with the Okhrana...
Vol. 39 • October 1956 • No. 44
