Leon Trotsky declared in Mexico City last week, "I believe that a group of Stalin agents headed by 'The Mink' has arrived in Mexico, plotting to kill me."
"The Mink" is notorious George Mink, alias Minkoff, who, according to the U. S. State Department, has a valid U. S. passport. He worked for Yellow Cab Co. in Philadelphia from 1928 until 1933. A Philadelphia cabby who had then known him said last week: "'The Mink' was a Red, all right! He was always startin' arguments, and they were so silly you'd get all burned up and lose your head. He hasn't got the brains of a flea! He won't kill nobody!"
In July 1935 in Copenhagen, a Danish court convicted and sentenced "The Mink" to a brief term for espionage.
In February 1937 "The Mink" was in Barcelona consorting with Soviet dignitaries who had arrived from Russia to assist Leftist Spain. Manhattan's anarchist paper, Il Martello, on Feb. 28, 1938 devoted its leading article to "The Mink" on the theory that he was Joseph Stalin's trigger man and Assassin Extraordinary.
Four weeks ago "The Mink" was reported in Manhattan, and its Trotskyists were convinced last week that he had taken a freighter to Galveston, Tex., thence would proceed to Mexico City and try to get Trotskyist No. 1.
Liston Oak and Harry Milton, U. S. citizens who have fought for Leftist Spain and returned to the U. S., avowed in Manhattan last week their belief that "The Mink" functioned for months in Barcelona as its most dread Stalin Secret Political Police agent.