By Lee Cary ——Bio and Archives--November 28, 2019
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On August 10, 2019, Jeffery Epstein was discovered unresponsive in his Metropolitan Correction Center (above left) cell where he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
The New York City medical examiner ruled his death a suicide.
Far away and long ago, another jailed prisoner similarly committed suicide.
In August 1924, Boris Viktorovich Savinkov (b. 1879) was jailed in Lubyanka Prison, Moscow. After the Bolshevik Revolution, the building (top right) that was originally the headquarters of an insurance company, was seized by the new government and became the center of the Cheka, the secret police, which was later succeeded by the GPU.
Earlier that month, Savinkov had voluntarily returned to Russia from self-imposed exile when he accepted as true a report that an underground group within Russia was prepared to follow his leadership. He had once been among the leaders in the Socialist Revolutionary Party in Russia. He was bored in exile, and took the chance of renewed fame in Russia and returned.
It was a trap.
His trial, only remarkable in the speed with which it was held, featured no prosecutor and no defense attorney. The judge, Vasiliy Ulrikh, seated at the table somewhat alone and nearest the door, sentenced him to ten years in prison. Surprisingly, no death penalty was imposed. (photo source)
On May 7, 1925, an allegedly depressed Savinkov jumped to his death from an unbarred window into the interior courtyard of Lubyanka. Obviously, there was no video surveillance of his cell. So, no one witnessed his leap to death.
But Savinkov left a suicide note. It was examined by his son. He verified the genuineness of its style and content as having been written by his father.
And there the story would have ended, except for what happened twelve years later.
In 1937, Artur Pryubel, a former Chekist (secret police) was dying in a prison camp in an isolated region of Far Eastern Russia named Kolyma. Close to his end, Pryubel confessed to fellow prisoners that he and three other guards at Lubyanka had thrown Savinkov out of a fifth-floor window into the Lubyanka courtyard.
Now, fast forward thirty more years.
An article in a 1967 edition of the Soviet publication Neva stated that the GPU had compromised several of Savinkov’s associates into deceiving him to return to Russia. The author of the article blamed Savinkov’s death on the carelessness of his guards at Lubyanka for failing to monitor him sufficiently to prevent his suicide. (Where else have we heard that recently?)
Furthermore, according to the famed author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, one Yakov Grigoryevich Blumkin, who was a Socialist-Revolutionary, Bolshevik, and agent of Cheka and later the GRU, wrote the suicide note on orders from the GPU. He did so after multiple visits to Savinkov’s cell where he learned to write like Savinkov spoke.Support Canada Free Press
Boris Savinkov( Left)So, the loose ends to the suicide of Boris Viktorovich Savinkov were all tied up.
On the 56th Anniversary of the assassination of JFK, November 22, 2019, an NBC article credited to the Associated Press was entitled “Barr calls Jeffrey Epstein's death a ‘perfect storm of screw-ups’”. The lede read:
“Attorney General William Barr said he initially had his own suspicions about financier Jeffrey Epstein’s death while behind bars at one of the most secure jails in America but came to conclude that his suicide was the result of “a perfect storm of screw-ups.”
So, the loose ends to the suicide of Jeffrey Edward Epstein are all tied up.
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