A series of completely unknown historical history about the installation of the KGB (the famous Intelligence Agency of the Soviet Union, to which Vladimir Putin belonged) are reported in the biography of iOSif Grigulevich, which has just been published for the first time in Spanish, by Editorial Ceibo.
Subtitled Stalin’s man in Latin Americawas written by Russian journalist Nil Nikandrov.
The book recounts the participation of Grigulevich in the attacks aimed at murdering Trotsky in Mexico, the installation of the operational leader of the first attack, the muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros, in Chillán, as well as the installation of what the Americans knew as the “Venona” network, a spying apparatus based in Buenos Aires, directed by Grigulevich (used by the pseudonym “Arthur”), and formed by Chileans, Argentines, among others, during World War II.
The book also shows the hatred of the Soviet communists to the Nazis (unlike the stories of social networks and people who insist on ensuring that the Nazis were left -wing).
-Indeed, Nikandrov tells how it was decided to install a base of the NKVD (as the KGB was before) in Chile, at the beginning of the 40s, among other reasons, due to the great activity of the NSDAP (acronym in German of the National Socialist Socialist Party German) in the country, as well as the spies of the Abwehr, the appliances of military intelligence directed by the legendary Admiral Wilhelm Canaris (who knew Chile perfectly).
In fact, the text recounts the moment when the agent that Grigulevich sent as Chief of the NKVD to Santiago, Leopoldo Arenal, better known as “Alexander”, made contact with the local PC, asking for help. Given this, Galo González was designated as his link, asking him what he needed. The “Alexander” response was that it required personnel “to sabotage the sending of raw materials to the Nazis. You have to stop the shipment of saltpeter and copper to the countries of the axis.”
Several of the background in this regard were achieved by the author of the book in an interview he conducted in Santiago the current general secretary of the Communist Party, Luis Corvalán, who told him that “the fifth column acted with the extreme impudence in Chile”, in reference to the Nazis.
Similarly, and among other background, the attention with which Alfaro Siqueiros – recognized in Chillán, while painting the famous mural of the Mexico School – was recounted, followed the case of alleged drawers of arms that were seen being taken to a farm near the city, in August 1941, in what was thought were activities by “a Nazi secret group that acted in the area and prepared an armed attack”.
