What becomes more suspicious is when you look a bit more at the person who might have been most interested in Tatlock being “removed from the picture”: Lt. Col.

What becomes more suspicious is when you look a bit more at the person who might have been most interested in Tatlock being “removed from the picture”: Lt. Col. Boris Pash, chief of the Counterintelligence Branch of the Western Defense Command (Army G-2 counterintelligence). A Russian immigrant to the United States who had fought on the losing side of the Russian Civil War, Pash was regarded by fellow Russian émigré George Kistiakowsky as “a really wild Russian, an extreme right wing, sort of Ku Klux Klan enthusiast.” It's interesting to me, that in the context of a story about the possible assassination of a U.S. citizen by its government for purported anti-government sympathies, that one of the main suspects would be an immigrant that achieved high status in the armed services (or came over as somewhat high status and retained some sort of rank in the military of a different nation?). That said, I'm not sure if that highlights how much more important in the past it was what you thought and how less important it was where you came from or if it's just really wild story that says less about the nation at that time and more about some really crazy characters that happened to be in proximity.