Mark Zborowski

Mark Zborowski ( born January 27, 1908 in Uman, † April 30, 1990 in San Francisco ) was an anthropologist and NKVD agent.

Life

Zborowski was born in 1908 into a Jewish family in Ukraine. According to his own testimony, his parents fled in 1921 from the effects of the Russian October Revolution to Poland. As a student Zborowski went against the wishes of his parents in the Communist Party of Poland. Because of his political activity he was arrested, whereupon he fled to Berlin, where, however, he could not find work. He then moved to France, studied at the University of Grenoble anthropology and settled in Paris.

In Paris Zborowski worked from 1933 under the name of Etienne as a Stalinist spy in the ranks of the Trotskyist movement in France. His reports were read by Stalin personally. He is regarded as a participant in the assassination of Erwin Wolf and Ignaz Reiss 1937, as well as Leon Sedov and Rudolf Klement 1938.

According to Sedov's death Zborowski was publisher and editor of the "Bulletin of the opposition." In September 1938, he made Ramón Mercader acquainted with the Trotskyist Sylvia Ageloff what this gave access to 1940 Leon Trotsky and the deadly attack allowed him.

Zborowski was given at the Sorbonne a diploma as an expert in ethnology and operating successfully anthropological research. In 1941 he emigrated to the United States where he continued his activities as an agent against the Fourth International. In the 1950s, he was discovered and had to testify before a Senate Committee on Homeland Security. In 1962 he was convicted of perjury and spent two years in prison.

After his release he resumed his academic career back on and gave 1969 study People in Pain out which reactions to pain sensations in different cultures are compared. He moved to San Francisco, where he received the post of Director of the Pain Center at Mount Zion Hospital.

Zborowski died in 1990 prosperous in the United States.