Most murders are committed either in the heat of passion, or as ancillary to other crimes such as robbery or rape, or as the irrational act of a criminal psychopath. A different and very special type of murder took place recently when the Bolivian Ambassador to France was shot to death at point-blank range in broad daylight as he walked to his car near his home in Paris. The murder of General Joaquin Zenteno Anaya proves anew that the international Communists have assassination squads with an unparalleled capacity for painstaking planning, patience, and perseverance.
The reason General Zenteno was targeted for execution was that he had been in charge of the Bolivian government forces that tracked down and killed the famous Communist Che Guevara in 1967 while Che was attempting a takeover of Bolivia similar to the Castro conquest of Cuba. That was in 1967, nine years ago. The Communists never forgive and never forget; they planned, they waited for their chance, and ther got their man.
The prime historical example of a careful, calculated, and cunning assassination by the Communists was the murder of Leon Trotsky with an ice-axe in Mexico City on August 20, 1940. A top Communist himself, Trotsky knew he was targeted for liquidation, and he was highly resourceful in guarding himself against the ruthless and relentless tactics he had helped to develop in Russia.
But even the brilliant Trotsky, who possessed one of the largest brains in history, was outwitted by the Communist murder squads. It took eight years, and finally succeeded after the assassin had trained for years to accomplish that one task, had seduced one of Trotsky’s American followers in order to gain access to Trotsky’s highly-fortified household, and then waited for two years for the opportune moment to strike.
The international Communist murder squads have many specialized variations in their arsenal of tricks. The courageous Ukrainian leader Stefan Bandera was eliminated by a technique called “silent assassination” in which a poisonous spray was discharged into his face.
The Danish diplomat at the UN, Paul Bang-Jensen, who had made headlines by refusing to make public a list of 81 witnesses to the Tied Army’s invasion of Hungary in 1956 whom the Communists wanted to arrest, was killed by the technique of murder-disguised-as-suicide. Another murder-suicide was used to liquidate the young American Bible salesman, Newcomb Mott, in 1965 while he was being transported on a Soviet prison train to a slave labor camp after being arrested on a trumped-up charge.
As Whittaker Chambers once commented, “Any fool can commit a murder, but it takes an artist to commit a good natural death.”
The Communist murder squads even operate inside the United States. In addition to killing Bang-Jensen on Long Island, the Communists murdered former Party member Juli.et Poyntz in Central Park, New York, 1937. The Communist gestapo murdered General Walter Krivitsky in a Washington, D.C. hotel room in 1940 after he defected from Russia, testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and asked to be baptized in the Episcopal Church.
It used to be said. that crime does not pay. The Communists have made murder highly profitable in advancing their worldwide conquests and in intimidating both opponents and defectors.
