The Archive · 1938

Doctors Involved

Moscow, Mar. 5.

Foreign circles here consider that Dr. Levin, one of the accused in the Moscow mass trial, will admit having been a former agent of the G.P.U. Dr. Levin, who is accused of having murdered or taken part in the murder: of Maxim Gorki, is said to have discovered the drugs used by the G.P.U. for making victims irresponsible and so admit everything. He was the house doctor of many Soviet personalities, among them Stalin, Zinoview, Gorki and Kuibyshey.

Great anxiety prevails among all medical staffs in hospitals and clinics as it is thought that a "purge" may be carried out because several doctors are among the accused. Hundreds of telegrams are being received by the Communist party administration daily, demanding the death of these doctors. The students of the medical institute

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