jun 25, 1940 - Leon Trotsky becomes an Informant for United State on Mexican Communist Party

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On 25 June 1940, Robert G McGregor Jr. of the US Consulate in Mexico met with Trotsky to talk about the
May attack. Trotsky claimed that the 24 May attack had been ordered by the Soviet Ambassador in
Washington, Konstantin Oumanski/Umansky, who was a GPU agent. Trotsky also asserted that Moscow had
a GPU agent in Mexico: an American citizen Harry Bloch. He pointed to Bloch’s article ‘The Phantom
Conspiracy’ in the June 1940 issue of The Nation and charged Bloch of working together with the Mexican
Communist, Lombardo Toledano......

He ended the meeting by telling McGregor Jr. that USA was committing a great mistake by being conciliatory towards Stalin for the aim of crushing Germany.

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