However, fortresses are always the easiest to breach from within!
On May 28, the fourth day after the attack, a young man with a good appearance got out of a car that drove slowly into Trotsky's house, and he was frank Jackson, the killer of Trotsky's successful blow. Trotsky was in the courtyard when he saw Jackson coming and held out his hand in a friendly manner. Jackson politely exchanged a few words of greeting with Toth. And he walked away,
Jackson was able to smoothly enter the Torth house. It is generally believed to be a close friend of Trotsky, introduced by Alfred, one of the leaders of the French Trotskyist organization, and his wife, Margaret Rossmeier. In fact, this is just speculation.
Jackson, who claimed to be Jacques Monard, went to Paris, France, in the summer of 1938 to meet A russian-American college student, Sylvia Glova-Maslova. She studied philosophy and psychology at Columbia University in the United States and was an American Trotskyist. One of her sisters worked in the Trotsky Secretariat. Sylvia went to Paris to attend the inaugural meeting of the Fourth International. She soon became obsessed with Innault. But the female believer in Trotsky was also elusive about Monad, who seemed to be unclear about which country he was, french or French Belgian, and often spoke of his profession without saying anything about it. Sylvia later returned home and in September 1939 Monard entered the United States using a Canadian passport. Renamed Frank Jackson, he had told Sylvia that he had never been to New York, but when he arrived in New York he was quite familiar with the streets of the city, but staying in New York with Sylvia was probably not Jackson's wish, so he suddenly told Sylvia that he was going to go to any company manager in Mexico, and asked Sylvia to go there, and she naturally agreed, so two months after Jackson arrived in Mexico, that is, in January of the following year, he also went to his neighboring country adjacent to the south of the United States, and soon worked as a secretary for Trotsky. Jackson, on the other hand, was even more affectionate, always waiting in a car at the entrance of the Torre Courtyard for Sylvia to pick her up. In this way, Jackson became acquainted with the doorman and soon became close friends with Hart.
Jackson met the Rossmels again through the Sylvia sisters. He often invited the Rossmeiers to browse the suburbs or eat at restaurants. In particular, when Rosemare fell ill, Jackson personally took rosmeier to a French hospital in the capital and took Rossmeer home, thus becoming a regular visitor to Trotsky's mansion. When Sylvia returned to New York in March, she asked Jackson to promise not to go to the Trotsky house again, and although Rosemare was given a chance due to illness, Jackson would not keep his promise without the Rosemarees and still managed to "break into" the mansion.
On May 28, Jackson met Trotsky for the first time, and Tortsky may have heard of him from the Sylvia sisters. But on this day, Jackson did not visit the house by chance, but came to pick up the Rosemarees. When he found out that the French couple was going to Verracruz to take the road back to France, he said that he also wanted to go there, and there was business to do, so he sent them along the way, so he drove to pick them up.
The Rossmeiers were gone, Sylvia was in New York, and Jackson seemed to have no reason to go to Trotsky's house again. It wasn't until June 12 that he went again, saying he was going to New York and that he would leave the car there so that the Tor family could be available at any time. Perhaps inspired by Jackson's kindness, Trotsky and his family did not have the slightest doubt, because it was a month and a half later, on July 29, as Tows's invited guests, Jackson and Sylvia appeared at the Torre's house. As a company manager, can you go so long without having to use your own car?
Before August 21, Jackson and Trotsky had met only four times. He behaved well in front of the Toshi couple and often appeared polite. At that time, there were serious differences of opinion within the American Trotsky organization, and Trotsky had his own tendencies. Sylvia sided with Bernaman and others, who had a different attitude from Torre's, and this did not prevent Trotsky from favoring Sylvia. When arguing there, Jackson was very inquisitive and did not express an attitude, but it was always clear that he was on Trotsky's side.
However, Trotsky's political sense of smell remained acute, which was largely triggered by Jackson's natural outpouring, around the course of his professional habits. On August 17, Jackson sent an article in which he criticized Bernaman and the others, saying that he wanted to ask Trotsky to correct his axe, and Trotsky was not in a position to resign, so he had to invite him to his study to discuss, and for about ten minutes, Trotsky was quite disgusted with Jackson's manners, because the latter completely changed the normal state of politeness, sitting at his desk, wearing a hat, carrying a coat in his hand, and talking to Trotsky, who was sitting at his desk reading the manuscript, until the end. Afterwards, Trotsky told Shedova that Jackson was not at all like a Frenchman, why should he hide his nationality, should be checked, on the 19th, he also told the secretary and guard Hansen of this suspicion, but Trotsky did not have more doubts, but suspected that Jackson was a liar, he felt deceived.
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