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In 1972 a CIA historian produced a classified report which dispensed with allegations and named Lilia as an NKVD agent, though no new evidence was revealed in the report which had not otherwise been available twenty years earlier. The CIA declassified the report in 1994. The release of the
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Soviets from a source inside the German Foreign Ministry. Lilia appeared in March 1956 before a Senate Subcommittee to publicly denounce Zborowski and to describe her role in the Trotskyist faction.
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revealed to both of them in 1955 that Mark
Zborowski was an NKVD agent, and he suspected that Lilia was also an agent, a theme he repeatedly stressed in his
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Costello and Oleg Tsarev, Deadly Illusions : The KGB Orlov Dossier Reveals Stalin's Master Spy, Crown Publishing, 1993.
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debriefings. Orlov also claimed that David Dallin had been a paid Soviet agent in Berlin in the 1920s, controlled by
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material exculpated Lilia. She is named in decrypts from May to August 1944, with regard to her involvement in the
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After moving to the United States, Lilia married David Dallin, a
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defection, and a reading of these documents clearly indicates that she was not a Soviet agent.
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Lilia Dallin, "Testimony Before U.S. Senate
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organization in the 1930s, the wife of the
Menshevik
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83:rose to power, in 1933, they moved to Paris. (Her
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174:Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States
94:In Paris Lilia found work as a secretary for
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100:International Institute of Social History
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63:party. In 1923 she emigrated to
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109:Bulletin of the Opposition
215:Politicians from LiepÄja
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225:Russian Trotskyists
77:Left Oppositionists
17:Lilia Estrin Dallin
67:where she married
151:Victor Kravchenko
96:Boris Nicolaevsky
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104:Lev Sedov
73:Leninists
61:Menshevik
53:Courland
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21:Trotsky
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89:Moscow
65:Berlin
81:Nazis
25:Paris
164:ISBN
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