I wanted to keep a working list of questions that have gnawing at me for the last twenty years.Ones that I keep coming back to more and more irritably! Please feel free to add and offer help if you have it.
a) In Krivitsky's "I Was Stalin's Agent" he writes about how the Russians had immediate access to information about what the Spanish anarchists in Barcelona in 1936 were doing and thinking because they had an agent there who kept them informed about the high echelons of the CNT-FAI.A Russian anarchist!! Much of what Krivitsky said has stood the test of time.Who could it be?
"This was emphasized to me in a report by one of the leaders of the Russian anarchist group in Paris, who was a secret agent of the Ogpu. He had been dispatched to Barcelona, where as a prominent anarchist he enjoyed the confidence of the anarcho-syndicalists in the local government. His mission was to act as an agent provocateur, to incite the Catalonians to rash acts that would justify calling in the Army as if to suppress a revolt behind the front.
"His report covered at least thirty pages [...] The agent gave a detailed report of his conferences with the various party leaders whose confidence he shared, and of the measures he had taken to inspire them to acts which would give the Ogpu an excuse for destroying them. He was sure there would soon be an outbreak in Barcelona." [I was Stalin's agent, page 127]
b) What happened to Guy Bowman.Central in the development og Syndicalism in the pre-war UK he appears to have disappeared soon after the war started.Did he join up?Killed in action?Drop out of the movement?Flee to Paris to join other critics of the War?
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