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MPC. 1300 Marcelle. 10 February 1934. MPC. 1376 Michelle. 29 October 1935. MPC. Guy Reiss (1904–1964) was a French astronomer and discoverer of five asteroids, who worked at the Algiers Observatory in Algiers, North Africa, during the 1930s and later at the Nice Observatory in southeastern France. [1] [2]
The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2011 . Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
- Early Life
- Espionage
- Defection
- Anti-Stalinist Activism
- Death
- Works
- See Also
- Sources
Walter Krivitsky was born on June 28, 1899, to Jewish parents as Samuel Ginsberg in Podwołoczyska, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Pidvolochysk, Ukraine), he adopted the name "Krivitsky," which was based on the Slavic root for "crooked, twisted". It was a revolutionary nom de guerre when he entered the Cheka, the Bolsheviksecurity and intelligence se...
Krivitsky operated as an illegal resident spy, with false name and papers, in Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Italy, and Hungary. He rose to the rank of control officer. He is credited with having organised industrial sabotage, stealing plans for submarines and planes, intercepting correspondence between Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, a...
While he was in the Hague, the General Staff of the Red Army was subjected to the Great Purge in Moscow, which Krivitsky and his close friend, Ignace Reiss, also then stationed abroad, found deeply disturbing. Reiss wanted to defect, but Krivitsky repeatedly held back. Finally, Reiss defected, as he announced in a defiant letter to Moscow. His assa...
At the end of 1938, anticipating the Nazi conquest of Europe, Krivitsky sailed from France to the United States. Krivitsky did not stop with defection; he went on to become a vocal member of the anti-Stalinist Left.
Krivitsky soon returned to North America, landing in Canada. Always in trouble with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Krivitsky was not able to return there until November 1940. Krivitsky retained Louis Waldman to represent him on legal matters. (Waldman was a long-time friend of Isaac Don Levine.) Meanwhile, the assassination of Tro...
In Stalin's Secret Service (1939) (second edition 1939, 1979, 1985, 2000)Rusia en España (Spanish, 1939)MI5 Debriefing & Other Documents on Soviet Intelligence(2004)- Gunshot to the head
- Austrian (first), French (last)
- Aleksandr ("Alek")
- Foreign intelligence
Sep 7, 2020 · Ronnie McNutt, 33, killed himself at home while sat in front of a desk, broadcasting it on Facebook. One friend wrote: “Please say a prayer right now for the family of Ronnie McNutt. He just ...
Sep 8, 2020 · Suicide rates continue to be on the rise, and yet it is still something so many people don’t want to talk about. Last month, a man recorded and posted a video of his death by suicide, which was then circulated around TikTok and Twitter on Sunday night. TikTok is attempting to remove the video and is banning accounts attempting to repeatedly ...
Jan 25, 2017 · January 25, 2017 / 11:22 AM PST / KCAL News. NORTH HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA.com) — An aspiring 33-year-old actor from Texas broadcast his suicide on Facebook Live earlier this week, just days after ...
Sep 11, 2020 · The younger Ronnie is survived by his mum Elaine, brother Joey, sister Mindy, three nieces and two nephews, according to an obituary. Mr McNutt shared a tragic final Facebook post before he began ...
