Spy behind Trotsky association 'plotted attack from US pharmacy'

The Russian spy behind Leon Trotsky's association was a James Bond-style agent who plotted the attack from a US pharmacy, according to a new book.

 

On August 20, 1940, Mercader plunged an ice axe into Trotsky's head. He died a day later Photo: PA

By Our Foreign Staff 5:09PM GMT 04 Feb 2011

Josef Grigulevich, the KGB agent who planned the Bolshevik revolutionary's 1940 assassination first established a safe house in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the book by EB Held claims.

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