21 Facts About Mark Zborowski

Mark Zborowski was an anthropologist and an NKVD agent.

Mark Zborowski was the NKVD's most valuable mole inside the Trotskyist organization in Paris during the 1930s and in New York during the 1940s.

Mark Zborowski moved to France and attended the University of Grenoble, studying anthropology and working as a waiter.

In 1933, the penniless Mark Zborowski turned up in Paris with his wife and was recruited as an NKVD agent by the Leningrad emigre Alexander Adler.

Mark Zborowski provided the NKVD with a written background and revealed that his sister and two brothers lived in the Soviet Union.

Mark Zborowski served as a member of the group's Central Committee, read and answered Sedov's mail, edited the Russian language version of the Bulletin of the Opposition, stored part of the Trotsky archive at his home, and served as Sedov's deputy in his absence.

Mark Zborowski used his skills to play upon the vanities of the remaining Trotskyists and create internal divisions within the faction, especially isolating Victor Serge.

Mark Zborowski followed him to Mexico and infiltrated him into Trotsky's household.

Mark Zborowski fled to the United States following the German invasion of France.

Mark Zborowski spied on the Dallins and helped the NKVD search for Victor Kravchenko, a Soviet engineer and mid-level bureaucrat who defected from a trade mission in 1944.

Mark Zborowski turned his attention to his academic career and found employment, with the aid of Margaret Mead, as a research assistant at Harvard University.

The FBI already knew that Mark Zborowski was an NKVD agent from information they had obtained from their double-agent Boris Morros.

Since he was free from prosecution for his activities in France, Mark Zborowski admitted to being an NKVD agent in Paris but he denied working as an agent in America.

Mark Zborowski was convicted of perjury and after an appeal and retrial he received a four-year prison sentence in 1962.

Mark Zborowski moved to San Francisco, where, in time, he rose to the position of Director of the Pain Institute at Mount Zion Hospital.

Mark Zborowski was located and photographed by David North in 1975 as part of the International Committee of the Fourth International's investigation into the death of Leon Trotsky, and other leading members of the Trotskyist movement, known as Security and the Fourth International.

When she next saw him, Mark Zborowski barged into her home once the door opened.

Mark Zborowski provided the information in 1947, just before anti-communism surfaced as a major post-war preoccupation, two years after his espionage work had ended, and almost a decade before he was unmasked.

Mark Zborowski seems to have felt safer from detection, freer to talk, than ever before or afterwards.

Mark Zborowski tells of his childhood in Uman and the social downfall of his middle-class parents.

Mark Zborowski's family left Russia for Poland, then how he himself left for France in 1928 with wife Regina.