Presumably everyone at the Waterbury Republican-American knows this bit of history about one of their own, but we sure didn’t.
Check out this excerpt from a New York Times book review of “The Hawk and the Dove, ” a new biography about cold war strategists Geroge Kennan and Paul Nitze by Nicholas Thompson:
Mr. Thompson has unearthed surprising details about other figures. The go-between in the ultimately unsuccessful defection attempt of Stalin’s grandson in 1975 was an Associated Press reporter, George Krimsky, who hoped to gain an exclusive.
“I admit it’s a gray area,” said Mr. Krimsky, now a reporter and columnist for The Republican-American, a newspaper in Waterbury, Conn., “but it would have been a hell of a story.”
Mr. Krimsky was subsequently kicked out of the Soviet Union on charges of spying.
