Letters - March 2010

I have read ‘Murder on the Métro’ (January 2010) with interest and believe it to be a valuable addition to our knowledge of the Cagoulard underground who often acted on the orders ofMussolini’s Organizzazione per la Vigilanza e la Repressione dell’Antifascismo (OVRA) as in the case of the Rosselli brothers. However, I cannot share the authors’ conviction that the murder of the Russian banker Dmitry Navashin (whom they call ‘economist Dimitri Navachine’) was the work of the Cagoule.As a matter of fact, the movement had no reason to kill him. But Stalin’s NKVD (the predecessor of the KGB) certainly had.