{"id":9441,"date":"2015-11-10T11:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=9441"},"modified":"2015-11-10T11:00:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T17:00:43","slug":"espionage-files-the-tradition-of-russians-dying-in-d-c-hotels-under-murky-circumstances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/10\/espionage-files-the-tradition-of-russians-dying-in-d-c-hotels-under-murky-circumstances\/","title":{"rendered":"Espionage Files: The tradition of Russians Dying in D.C. Hotels under Murky Circumstances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9442\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/spy.png?w=620\" alt=\"spy\" width=\"620\" height=\"311\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The other day a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-34754590\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">former Putin spokesman died in a DC hotel<\/a>. He was 57 years old. Seems young to me for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/d11b034a-8635-11e5-9f8c-a8d619fa707c.html#axzz3r0Lg6r48\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">heart attack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This reminded me of poor old <a href=\"http:\/\/intellit.muskingum.edu\/russia_folder\/russiasovdef_folder\/russiasovdefk.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Walter Krivitsky<\/a>, a top Soviet intelligence official who defected after his friend and colleague Ignace Reiss was machine gunned in Switzerland in 1937.<\/p>\n<p>American <a href=\"https:\/\/vault.fbi.gov\/Walter%20Krivitsky\/Walter%20Krivitsky%20Part%201%20of%208\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">officials<\/a> didn\u2019t take very seriously Krivitsky\u2019s warning of an impending treaty between Stalin and Hitler. He wound up dead in a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hotel_George_(Washington,_D.C.)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hotel<\/a>near Union Station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\">Krivitsky also may have tried to tip off the Americans that a British journalist in Spain was working for the NKVD. He apparently didn\u2019t have the name of that reporter. We now know it was Kim Philby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\">Read the Original Article at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2015\/11\/09\/the-tradition-of-russians-dying-in-d-c-hotels-in-murky-circumstances\/\">Foreign Policy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day a former Putin spokesman died in a DC hotel. He was 57 years old. Seems young to me for a heart attack. This reminded me of poor old Walter Krivitsky, a top Soviet intelligence official who defected after his friend and colleague Ignace Reiss was machine gunned in Switzerland in 1937. American&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2770,2908,1725,2426,1189],"tags":[1955,1779,2937,2938,2939,1782],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}