August 1976 as a 'veteran Trotskyist'. This is interesting, as we are well acquainted with Vereeken's history as a "Trotskyist'.
On 20 January 1938, Leon Trotsky wrote to his secretary Van:
*As for Cde. Ver, who unfortunately increasingly takes his distance from Marxism, it is extremely characteristic that he finds it possible to support Sneevliet in his totally opportunist struggle, now open, against the Fourth International and at the same time. to conduct against us his ultra-leftist intransigence …' (Bulletin Interieure International, edité par le Secretariat Internationale Pour la Quatrième Internationale No. 3, début mai 1938, p.10).
Vereeken denied these imputations in Bulletin intérieur, No. 14, May 1938 (page 17), winere ne stated. revolutionary, I have always opposed false accusations brought deliberately or otherwise against militant revolutionaries of whatever tendency' (Healy, please take note). But in the same bulletin there is g statement signed 'Cami 18.iii.38' which quotes Vereeken as having said: "Si le Vieux critique Sneevliet, il devrait avec beaucoup de raisons critiquer son propre fils.' (If the Old Man [Trotsky] criticises Sneevliet, he should for many [or good] reasons criticise his own son). [3] If Vereeken does not directly accuse Sedov, it seems he was given to loose talk. he does not seem to nave learnea anyuming from his own history.
We must now pose a question. Healy accuses Hansen of concealing his association (sic) with known GPU agents for 37 years. We must now ask Healy why he concealed his own connections WIED "Etienne' (Zborowski) from his followers. Healy revealed this association in a letter to this very same Joseph Hansen whom he now accuses, in true Vyshinsky style, of the foulest misdeeds, dated 14 March 1960.
Not only did Healy meet "Etienne' on several occasions (how often?), but this GPU agent actually stayed a night at Healv's house. In the kindness of his hear Healy even bought the poor man a pair of shoes. All this took place in 1946. Should there not now be an enquiry as to wh Healy kept silent about this for 14 years? Bonus Finally, I offer Healy a little bonus. The writer of these lines actually knew Trotsky's murderer 'Jason' and Sylvia Ageloff in Paris in 1938. The photo in How the GPU murdered Trotsky of these two with Maria Craipeau was taken by me and 1s m copyright. Perhaps I will now be indicted as an accomplice of Joseph Hansen, George Novack, James P. Cannon, et al!
For a suitable donation to the Red Weekly Fighting Fund, I am prepared to let him have a whole list of people who were in Fans at that time and must nave me Mornard. Then, like his infamous predecessor in the Kremlin, he can now stage a whole series of Moscow Trials' and keep the pages of News Line filled with this sensational rubbish, thus avoiding th necessity of dealing with the real issues of the class struggle in Britain and the world.
London, 2 September 1976.
FOOTNOTES 2. Note the documents references to He first . Found in the Vereeken Archives at Harvard years of the Cl'. i.e. when the Comintern wa nedded by Lenin ane rotsky, inus giving suppor to the mythology that Leninism fostered Stalin ISM 3. Camille was one of the pseudonyms of mucot mement becretary orne nemanone