A Washington suicide? Mysterious end of Soviet agent who defected.(BOOKS) From: The Washington Times | Date: August 10, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 News World Communications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Joseph C. Goulden, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Just after publication of his damning account of the sins of the Soviet regime in 1939, "In Stalin's Secret Service," defected Soviet intelligence officer Walter G. Krivitsky told the New York Times, "If they ever try to prove that I took my own life, don't believe it." The Times used that quotation in a story when Krivitsky was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head in a locked hotel room near Washington's Un...