Argentina again, 1941-47: Grigulevich begins his war on Nazis by sabotaging a bookstore, then ships in Buenos Aires harbor heading to Germany. He and Laura head to Brazil after war ends.
Hooray! Transparency comes to the city's capital outlay lobbying process, thanks to City Manager Gary Whitehead. The city will be much more prepared for the legislative session and city commissioners, lobbyist and staff will all be singing from the same sheet of music. Add your voice to the chorus.
Mexico, 1940-41: After the raid, gatekeeper found dead, Siqueiros heads to the hills, Grigulevich returns to Santa Fe with new lover, and another Stalin assassin kills Trotsky with ice axe.
The city's police department, between chiefs of police, didn't investigate calls reporting Ferguson Sr.'s child abuse of his son, which made the city liable for his death.
Mexico, 1940. Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo welcomed Trotsky to Mexico, but David Siqueiros and his muralists planned to scare him away by raiding his compound.
Everyone agrees that America changed with the election and re-election of our present President, but they all disagree about what that change is and if the change is good, bad, or ugly. My two-cents worth is that American eugenics has changed to pop-eugenics, and pop-eugenics rules the day.
New York, late 1938 to early 1939. Intercepted spy cables detail how Grigulevich attacked the credibility of the 'legal' Soviet agents in New York, resulting in the office ehief being executed..
Santa Fe, 1938-1940, part 2. Grigulevich might have found friendship at both Capital Pharmacy and Zook's, but the idea that either became a safe house does not square with the facts.Zook’s wasn’t the only drug store Grigulevich got to know in Santa Fe. Eight doors away was Capital Pharmacy, 82 East San Francisco (now the
New Mexico, 1938-40. Santa Fe was a place for Grigulevich to cool his heels, develop a new identity for his next assignment, and make a connection with Zook’s drugstore.
Spain, 1936-38. Trotskyist became a dividing line in the Spanish Civil War where Grigulevich learned how to manipulate public opinion while doing his first professional killing.
Lithuania-Argentina, 1913-1935. Josif Grigulevich grew up in a turbulent world, traded his Karaite Jewish roots for Marxism and accepted an offer to reunite with his father in Argentina, learn Spanish and become a Soviet spy.
Josif Grigulevich was a Soviet assassin, saboteur and master manipulator of the media and politics in Latin America, Spain, the United States and Italy, 1933 to 1953. During his stint in New Mexico, mid 1938 to early 1940, he laid low, hung out at two pharmacies near the Santa Fe Plaza and might have had a fling with the daughter of one of the owners.